Palaeogaleus prior
No picture of Palaeogaleus prior 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 Palaeogaleus prior, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PalaeogaleusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Palaeogaleus prior 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
9 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Palaeogaleus prior has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Palaeogaleus prior and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Palaeogaleus prior and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Dasyatis tetraedra9 sites
- Palaeogaleus brivesi9 sites
- Danogaleus gueriri8 sites
- Dasyatis hexagonalis8 sites
- Coupatezia laevis7 sites
- Ginglymostoma subafricanum7 sites
- Heterotorpedo lyazidii7 sites
- Triakis tanoutensis7 sites
- Foumtizia abdouni5 sites
- Foumtizia gadaensis5 sites
- Prosopodon assafai5 sites
- Archaeomanta4 sites
- Coupatezia danica4 sites
- Ginglymostoma khouribgaense4 sites
- Scyliorhinus entomodon4 sites
- Scyliorhinus ptychtus4 sites
- Gymnuridae3 sites
- Ishaquia globidens3 sites
- Myliodasyatis meskalaensis3 sites
- Nebrius bequaerti3 sites
- Premontreia (Oxyscyllium) subulidens3 sites
- Abdounia africana2 sites
- Casieria maghrebiana2 sites
- Coupatezia fallax2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Palaeogaleus prior, 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
1 referenceEach of the 9 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Palaeogaleus prior 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 Palaeogaleus prior, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Palaeogaleus prior 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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What may have been alongside itPalaeogaleus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Arambourg 1952)