Pararaja expansa
No picture of Pararaja expansa 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 Pararaja expansa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PararajaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Rajiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Rajiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Rajiformes
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Pararaja expansa 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
2 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.
Pararaja expansa and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Pararaja expansa and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Aipichthys minor2 sites
- Aipichthys velifer2 sites
- Rhinobatos maronita2 sites
- Abisaadia hakelensis1 site
- Akromystax tilmachiton1 site
- Anguillavus quadripinnis1 site
- Apateopholis laniatus1 site
- Aphanepygus dorsalis1 site
- Charitosomus hakelensis1 site
- Coccodus armatus1 site
- Cretodus semiplicatus1 site
- Ctenothrissa vexillifer1 site
- Cyclobatis major1 site
- Cyclobatis oligodactylus1 site
- Cyclobatis tuberculatus1 site
- Eurypholis boissieri1 site
- Eusebichthys byblosi1 site
- Exocoetoides minor1 site
- Exocoetoides tenuis1 site
- Flagellipinna rhomboides1 site
- Glyphiteuthis libanotica1 site
- Hoplopteryx lewisi1 site
- Ichthyoceros spinosus1 site
- Ichthyodectes libanicus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pararaja expansa, 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
2 references- Les sélaciens du Crétacé supérieur du Liban. II. Batoïdes1
- The fossil fishes of the chalk of Mount Lebanon, in Syria1
Each of the 2 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 Pararaja expansa 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 Pararaja expansa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pararaja expansa 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPararaja through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Davis 1887)