Mustelus biddlei
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MustelusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
Time the record covers
At most 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 59.24 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Mustelus biddlei on record, most of them in the Paleocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
4 occurrences- Paleocene100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
2 formations
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The named rock units Mustelus biddlei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mustelus biddlei and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Mustelus biddlei and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
44 taxa- Aetomylaeus dixoni4 sites
- Anomotodon novus4 sites
- Carcharias hopei4 sites
- Glueckmanotodus heinzelini4 sites
- Heterodontus lerichei4 sites
- Hypolophodon sylvestris4 sites
- Isurolamna inflata4 sites
- Jaekelotodus robustus4 sites
- Pachygaleus lefevrei4 sites
- Palaeogaleus vincenti4 sites
- Palaeohypotodus rutoti4 sites
- Paraorthacodus clarkii4 sites
- Premontreia (Oxyscyllium) gilberti4 sites
- Squalus minor4 sites
- Squalus orpiensis4 sites
- Squatina prima4 sites
- Striatolamia striata4 sites
- Odontaspis winkleri3 sites
- Otodus obliquus3 sites
- Abdounia biauriculata2 sites
- Abdounia minutissima2 sites
- Burnhamia2 sites
- Carcharias vincenti2 sites
- Chimaeridae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Mustelus biddlei, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
2 references- Les élasmobranches du Thanétien (Paléocène) du Nord de la France, des carrières de Templeuve et de Leforest2
- Contribution à l'étude des élasmobranches du Thanétien (Paléocène) du Bassin de Paris. 1. Découverte d'une faune d'elasmobranches dans la partie supérieure des Sables de Bracheux (Thanétien, Paléocène du Bassin de Paris) des régions de Compiègne (Oise) et de Montdidier (Somme)2
Each of the 4 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Mustelus biddlei was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Mustelus biddlei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mustelus biddlei was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMustelus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Baut and Génault 1995