Otodus (Carcharocles) sokolowi

Otodus (Carcharocles) sokolowi

Miss Zoë E. Hughes · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Otodus (Carcharocles)PBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes

Time the record covers

At least 7.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Eocene — about 50 of 52 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 52 occurrencesOligocene49–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 6 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 6 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 6 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 6 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 6 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41.03 Mya33.9 Mya48.6 Mya26.8 Mya

52 occurrences of Otodus (Carcharocles) sokolowi on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

52 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

23 formations

Gehannam — 29.31°N, 30.18°EGehannam — 29.36°N, 30.16°EGehannam — 29.33°N, 30.08°EGehannam — 29.30°N, 30.05°EMarnes de Donzacq — 43.75°N, 0.84°WBirket Qarun — 29.27°N, 30.06°EBirket Qarun — 29.27°N, 30.02°EBirket Qarun — 29.50°N, 30.56°EQasr el-Sagha — 29.60°N, 30.67°EQasr el-Sagha — 29.32°N, 30.05°EQasr el-Sagha — 29.30°N, 29.99°EElGharaq — 28.82°N, 28.14°EElGharaq — 28.46°N, 28.93°EElGharaq — 29.45°N, 30.36°EWadi Esh-Shallala — 31.57°N, 37.12°EWadi Esh-Shallala — 30.85°N, 35.85°EJacksonian — 32.42°N, 83.43°WJacksonian — 32.74°N, 83.50°WFürstenau — 52.59°N, 7.22°EWadi Hof — 30.05°N, 31.52°EWadi Hof — 30.10°N, 32.14°EGar Gehannam — 29.32°N, 30.15°ERishtan — 41.65°N, 64.69°EDaba'a — 29.16°N, 27.43°EMidawara — 29.08°N, 30.11°EClinchfield — 32.91°N, 83.36°WMoodys Branch — 32.28°N, 90.18°WYazoo — 32.83°N, 90.38°WByram — 32.32°N, 90.86°WMarianna — 32.26°N, 90.04°WAridal — 25.09°N, 13.89°WSahlab — 33.90°N, 52.41°ESubmeseta — 64.25°S, 56.60°WTupelo Bay — 33.24°N, 80.44°WQasr ElSagha — 29.32°N, 30.05°E

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The named rock units Otodus (Carcharocles) sokolowi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Otodus (Carcharocles) sokolowi and its relatives

Eocene

Where Otodus (Carcharocles) sokolowi and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

418 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Otodus (Carcharocles) sokolowi, 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

17 references

Each of the 52 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. 5 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 Otodus (Carcharocles) sokolowi

Source
GBIF
Credit
Miss Zoë E. Hughes
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Jakel 1895)