Otodus schoutedeni
No picture of Otodus schoutedeni was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikidata and 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 schoutedeni, 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 most 2.5 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 61.66 Mya and 59.24 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Otodus schoutedeni 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
1 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Otodus schoutedeni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Otodus schoutedeni and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Otodus schoutedeni and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Aetomylaeus dixoni1 site
- Anomotodon novus1 site
- Cretalamna appendiculata1 site
- Delpitoscyllium africanum1 site
- Eotorpedo hilgendorfi1 site
- Galeorhinus parvulus1 site
- Myliobatis toliapicus1 site
- Odontaspis substriata1 site
- Palaeocarcharodon orientalis1 site
- Palaeohypotodus speyeri1 site
- Raja1 site
- Scyliorhinus cabindensis1 site
- Sulcidens sulcidens1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Otodus schoutedeni, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Otodus schoutedeni was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikidata and 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 schoutedeni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Otodus schoutedeni 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 itOtodus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dartevelle and Casier 1943)