Otodus auriculatus

No picture of Otodus auriculatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Otodus auriculatus itself, so it was not used. 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 Otodus auriculatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 64 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 57 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 57 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 44 of 57 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 57 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 57 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 57 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 57 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 3 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 8 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 8 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 9 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 8 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.7–2.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72.2 Mya7.246 Mya85 Mya0 Mya

57 occurrences of Otodus auriculatus 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

57 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

39 formations

Lisbon — 31.36°N, 86.52°WLisbon — 31.83°N, 88.31°WLa Meseta — 64.25°S, 56.67°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.65°WOsinovaya — 48.36°N, 41.85°EOsinovaya — 48.38°N, 41.93°EOsinovaya — 48.46°N, 41.83°EFürstenau — 52.59°N, 7.22°ERío Baguales — 50.73°S, 72.47°WCrescent — 47.31°N, 123.46°WCrescent — 47.59°N, 123.20°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WClinchfield — 32.91°N, 83.36°WSan Juan — 16.67°N, 93.08°WCasamayor — 47.72°S, 66.70°WTe Whanga Limestone — 43.82°S, 176.50°EYazoo — 32.27°N, 89.39°WTrent — 35.07°N, 77.15°WMilburn Limestone — 46.07°S, 170.00°EDaba'a — 29.16°N, 27.43°EMoodys Branch — 32.90°N, 90.19°WNanjemoy — 38.41°N, 76.99°WGatun — 9.28°N, 79.89°WKattachi — 33.60°N, 130.58°EOamaru — 44.92°S, 170.62°EConway — 42.58°S, 173.49°EJan Juc — 38.20°S, 144.27°EPort Campbell Limestone — 37.74°S, 141.94°E

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The named rock units Otodus auriculatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Otodus auriculatus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Otodus auriculatus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

777 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 55 sites for Otodus auriculatus, 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

43 references

Each of the 57 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. 31 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 content0

No picture of Otodus auriculatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Otodus auriculatus itself, so it was not used.

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 Otodus auriculatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Otodus auriculatus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Blainville 1818)