Notidanodon lanceolatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NotidanodonPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Hexanchiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Hexanchiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Hexanchiformes
Time the record covers
At least 25 million years on record.
The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 66 Mya.
10 occurrences of Notidanodon lanceolatus on record, most of them in the Early 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
10 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Notidanodon lanceolatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Notidanodon lanceolatus and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Notidanodon lanceolatus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Elasmobranchii2 sites
- Carlclausus emersoni1 site
- Centrophoroides latidens1 site
- Centroscymnus1 site
- Clamydoselachidae1 site
- Cretitanais giganteus1 site
- Cretorectolobus doylei1 site
- Dasyatis speetonensis1 site
- Eryma sulcatum1 site
- Etcheslepas borealis1 site
- Gladioserratus aptiensis1 site
- Goniasteridae1 site
- Hoploparia dentata1 site
- Ichthyosauria1 site
- Ichthyosaurus1 site
- Jaegerscalpellum elegans1 site
- Lamna1 site
- Leptostyrax stychi1 site
- Martillepas decoratus1 site
- Martillepas hausmanni1 site
- Mecochirus1 site
- Myctophidae1 site
- Ornithocheirus wiedenrothi1 site
- Pachyhexanchus pockrandti1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Notidanodon lanceolatus, 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
5 references- Hexanchid shark teeth (Neoselachii, Vertebrata) from the Lower Cretaceous of Germany and England5
- Cow sharks (Hexanchiformes) from the Cretaceous deposits of the Crimea2
- Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic fish faunas of Japan1
- A New World occurrence of Notidanodon lanceolatus (Chondrichthyes, Hexanchidae) and comments on hexanchid shark evolution1
- Palaeoecology of Lower Cretaceous cow sharks (Neoselachii, Hexanchiformes)1
Each of the 10 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. 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 lanceolatus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Notidanodon lanceolatus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itNotidanodon through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Woodward 1886)