Parapalaeobates pygmaeus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParapalaeobatesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Rajiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Rajiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Rajiformes
Time the record covers
At most 2.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 83.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Parapalaeobates pygmaeus 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
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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 Parapalaeobates pygmaeus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Parapalaeobates pygmaeus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Parapalaeobates pygmaeus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Cretalamna appendiculata2 sites
- Scapanorhynchus raphiodon2 sites
- Cantioscyllium1 site
- Corax kaupi1 site
- Cretorectolobus1 site
- Cretoxyrhina mantelli1 site
- Ctenopristis1 site
- Eostegostoma1 site
- Polyacrodus1 site
- Protolamna1 site
- Pseudohypolophus1 site
- Ptychocorax dolloi1 site
- Ptychotrygon1 site
- Rajiformes1 site
- Rhinobatos1 site
- Rhinobatos casieri1 site
- Rhynchobatus1 site
- Scapanorhynchus texanus1 site
- Sclerorhynchus1 site
- Squalicorax kaupi1 site
- Squalicorax pristodontus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Parapalaeobates pygmaeus, 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
3 references- A new selachian fauna from the Wadi Umm Ghudran Formation (Late Creteceous) - central Jordan1
- Sélaciens nouveaux du Crétacé supérieur du Sud-Ouest de la France. Quelques apports à la systématique des élasmobranches1
- Les poissons fossiles du Bas-Congo et des régions voisines1
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 Parapalaeobates pygmaeus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Parapalaeobates pygmaeus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Parapalaeobates pygmaeus 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 itParapalaeobates through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Quaas 1902)