Onchosaurus radicalis
No picture of Onchosaurus radicalis 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 Onchosaurus radicalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OnchosaurusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Time the record covers
At least 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
2 occurrences of Onchosaurus radicalis 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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 Onchosaurus radicalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Onchosaurus radicalis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Onchosaurus radicalis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Calliderma1 site
- Crateraster quinqueloba1 site
- Cretiscalpellum striatum1 site
- Echinocorys1 site
- Hainosaurus1 site
- Leiodon anceps1 site
- Metopaster meudonensis1 site
- Metopaster parkinsoni1 site
- Mosasaurus hoffmannii1 site
- Nymphaster alseni1 site
- Nymphaster studlandensis1 site
- Selachii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Onchosaurus radicalis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- First occurrence of the sawfish Onchosaurus from the Late Cretaceous of Spain1
- Zoologie et Paléontologie Françaises (Animaux Vertébrés) ou Nouvelles Recherches sur les Animaux Vivants et Fossiles de la France1
Each of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Onchosaurus radicalis 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 Onchosaurus radicalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Onchosaurus radicalis 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 itOnchosaurus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gervais 1852)