Paraisurus compressus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParaisurusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes
Time the record covers
At most 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 113.2 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Paraisurus compressus on record, most of them in the Early 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Paraisurus compressus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Paraisurus compressus and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Paraisurus compressus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
82 taxa- Cretalamna2 sites
- Polyacrodus illingworthi2 sites
- Adocus kizylkumensis1 site
- Ammonoidea1 site
- Angiospermae1 site
- Anomotodon1 site
- Anura1 site
- Araucariaceae1 site
- Archaeolamna1 site
- Aspidorhynchidae1 site
- Aves1 site
- Batoidea1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Bobolestes zenge1 site
- Carchariidae1 site
- Ceratopsia1 site
- cf. Opthalmosaurinae indet.1 site
- Coeluridae1 site
- Coniferales1 site
- Cretodus1 site
- Cretoxyrhina vraconensis1 site
- Cretoxyrhinidae1 site
- Crocodylia1 site
- Dapedium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Paraisurus compressus, 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
3 references- Late late Albian (Early Cretaceous) shark teeth from Annopol, Poland1
- Sharks from the mid-Cretaceous Gearle Siltstone, Southern Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia1
- Cretaceous sharks of the genus Paraisurus in Uzbekistan and Lithuania1
Each of the 3 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. 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
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No picture of Paraisurus compressus 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 Paraisurus compressus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paraisurus compressus 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 itParaisurus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sokolov 1978