Odontaspis substriata

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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 least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
35 occurrences of Odontaspis substriata 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
35 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
6 formations
- Landana Formation18
- Umm Himar Formation2
- Ilaro Formation1
- Hatchetigbee Bluff Formation · Wilcox Group1
- Clayton Formation · Midway Group1
- Tallahatta Formation1
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The named rock units Odontaspis substriata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Odontaspis substriata and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Odontaspis substriata and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
169 taxa- Aetomylaeus dixoni17 sites
- Cretalamna appendiculata15 sites
- Palaeohypotodus speyeri13 sites
- Sulcidens sulcidens10 sites
- Myliobatis nzadinensis9 sites
- Taphrosphys congolensis9 sites
- Delpitoscyllium africanum8 sites
- Eotorpedo hilgendorfi8 sites
- Otodus obliquus7 sites
- Ginglymostoma sokotoense4 sites
- Myliobatis toliapicus4 sites
- Nebrius bequaerti4 sites
- Anomotodon novus3 sites
- Myliobatis3 sites
- Palaeocarcharodon orientalis3 sites
- Rhinoptera raeburni3 sites
- Brachycarcharias koerti2 sites
- Carcharias cuspidatus2 sites
- Carcharias macrotus2 sites
- Cylichna2 sites
- Dyrosauridae2 sites
- Hypolophites2 sites
- Myliobatidae2 sites
- Pitar2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Odontaspis substriata, 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
6 references- Les poissons fossiles du Bas-Congo et des régions voisines25
- Additional records of Paleogene fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) from Alabama, USA3
- Reptilien und Fischreste aus dem marinen Alttertiär von Südtogo (Westafrika)3
- The Umm Himar Formation (Paleocene) of Saudi Arabia and Associated Strata: Stratigraphy, Vertebrate Fauna, and Paleoenvironment2
- Les poissons crétacés et tertiaires du bassin des Iullemmeden (République du Niger)1
- Eocene stratigraphy of southern Nigeria1
Each of the 35 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 Odontaspis substriata
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- taopina
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Odontaspis substriata 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 PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stromer 1910)