Paranomotodon

Paranomotodon

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 5 of 71 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 66 of 71 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 71 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 1 occurrence109–108 Mya — about 1 occurrence108–106 Mya — about 1 occurrence106–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 3 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 3 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 3 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 4 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 4 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 4 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 3 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 3 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 4 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 4 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 3 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 3 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 3 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 3 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 3 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 3 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 3 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 3 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 3 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 3 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence110.1 Mya72.2 Mya114.1 Mya65.1 Mya

71 occurrences of Paranomotodon on record, most of them in the Late 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

71 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

27 formations

Navesink — 40.35°N, 74.17°WNavesink — 40.38°N, 74.21°WMarshalltown — 40.30°N, 74.30°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WBilá — 49.98°N, 15.60°EFox Hills — 46.05°N, 103.88°WFox Hills — 46.47°N, 99.58°WFox Hills — 46.42°N, 100.74°WFox Hills — 46.30°N, 100.33°WTropic Shale — 37.13°N, 111.44°WTropic Shale — 37.07°N, 111.54°WKemp Clay — 33.21°N, 95.92°WMount Laurel — 40.30°N, 74.30°WLa Cabaña — 43.34°N, 5.84°WMerchantville — 39.54°N, 75.73°WTres Hermanos — 34.31°N, 106.74°WHibernian Greensand — 54.95°N, 5.91°WCarlile Shale — 39.78°N, 98.15°WNiobrara — 38.90°N, 99.41°WGerharsreit — 47.81°N, 12.65°EMenuha — 30.95°N, 35.00°EHinoshima — 32.40°N, 130.40°EUmm Ghudran — 32.58°N, 35.81°EPeedee — 34.38°N, 77.83°WMaastricht — 50.84°N, 5.79°EMaastricht — 50.79°N, 5.67°EMaisières — 50.49°N, 3.96°EGlauconie de Lonzée — 50.55°N, 4.73°ELezennes Chalk — 50.61°N, 3.12°EItombe — 8.29°S, 13.35°E

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The named rock units Paranomotodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paranomotodon and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Paranomotodon and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

705 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 69 sites for Paranomotodon, 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

39 references

Each of the 71 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. 27 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 Paranomotodon

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Paranomotodon 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. Herman 1977