Odontaspis aculeatus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OdontaspisPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes

Time the record covers

At most 18 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 40 of 40 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 40 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 2 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 2 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 2 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 2 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–71 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84.1 Mya65.5 Mya

40 occurrences of Odontaspis aculeatus 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

40 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

Mesaverde — 44.08°N, 107.74°WMesaverde — 44.10°N, 107.75°WMesaverde — 44.17°N, 107.81°WNavesink — 40.35°N, 74.17°WNavesink — 40.38°N, 74.21°WJudith River — 48.03°N, 109.01°WJudith River — 47.79°N, 108.94°WJudith River — 48.01°N, 108.91°WJudith River — 47.74°N, 108.96°WDinosaur Park — 50.81°N, 111.32°WDinosaur Park — 50.78°N, 111.36°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WFox Hills — 46.05°N, 103.88°WFox Hills — 46.47°N, 99.58°WFox Hills — 44.52°N, 102.39°WBearpaw — 51.27°N, 112.33°WMount Laurel — 40.30°N, 74.30°WMount Laurel — 39.56°N, 75.63°WKemp Clay — 33.21°N, 95.92°WSevern — 38.96°N, 76.71°WMerchantville — 39.95°N, 74.99°WPeedee — 34.38°N, 77.83°WArkadelphia — 34.38°N, 92.85°W

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The named rock units Odontaspis aculeatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Odontaspis aculeatus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Odontaspis aculeatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

315 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Odontaspis aculeatus, 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

19 references

Each of the 40 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. 7 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

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No picture of Odontaspis aculeatus 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 Odontaspis aculeatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Odontaspis aculeatus 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 itOdontaspis through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cappetta and Case 1975)