Notidanodon

Notidanodon is an extinct genus of cow shark. Fossils ascribed to this genus are known from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Recently, the genus underwent a major revision and was split into two after the erection of Xampylodon to accommodate the species X. dentatus, X. loozi, and X. brotzeni. The genus is now known only from New Zealand, Antarctica, Africa, and South America.

Notidanodon

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HexanchidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Hexanchiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Hexanchiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Hexanchiformes

Time the record covers

At least 64 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 61.66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 56 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 8 of 37 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 26 of 37 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 37 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 37 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences129–126 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences126–124 Mya — about 1 occurrence124–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–118 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences116–113 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 1 occurrence97–94 Mya — about 1 occurrence94–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–89 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–78 Mya — about 2 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 3 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 3 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences125.77 Mya61.66 Mya134 Mya54 Mya

37 occurrences of Notidanodon on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

37 occurrences

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

13 formations

López de Bertodano — 64.26°S, 56.78°WLópez de Bertodano — 64.27°S, 56.72°WSanta Marta — 63.90°S, 57.90°WSnow Hill Island — 63.93°S, 57.81°WWaipara Greensand — 43.05°S, 172.62°EHinoshima — 32.40°N, 130.40°ENorthumberland — 49.55°N, 124.70°WNorthumberland — 49.54°N, 124.71°WSpeeton Clay — 54.16°N, 0.26°WBudden Canyon — 40.45°N, 122.58°WKarai — 11.10°N, 78.90°ECalafate — 50.27°S, 72.04°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.28°S, 56.75°WGault — 51.08°N, 1.18°ETor — 55.32°N, 12.44°E

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The named rock units Notidanodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Notidanodon and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Notidanodon and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

192 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Notidanodon, 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

21 references

Each of the 37 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. 9 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Notidanodon

Credit
FunkMonk
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itHexanchidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cappetta 1975