Parasquatina cappettai
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParasquatinaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Orectolobiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Orectolobiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Orectolobiformes
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.
3 occurrences of Parasquatina cappettai 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
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous33%
- Paleocene67%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Parasquatina cappettai has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Parasquatina cappettai and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Parasquatina cappettai and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Centroscymnus praecursor3 sites
- Heterodontus rugosus3 sites
- Hexanchus microdon3 sites
- Carcharias gracilis2 sites
- Cretalamna appendiculata2 sites
- Hemiscyllium hermani2 sites
- Squalus gabrielsoni2 sites
- Synechodus faxensis2 sites
- Chlamydoselachus1 site
- Crassescyliorhinus germanicus1 site
- Palaeogaleus faujasi1 site
- Palaeohypotodus bronni1 site
- Pararhincodon groessensi1 site
- Paratriakis curtirostris1 site
- Proetmopterus hemmooriensis1 site
- Scyliorhinus biddlei1 site
- Scyliorhinus elongatus1 site
- Squaliodalatias1 site
- Squatina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Parasquatina cappettai, 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
2 references- Crossing the boundary: an elasmobranch fauna from Stevns Klint, Denmark2
- Neoselachians from the Danian (Early Paleocene) of Denmark1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Parasquatina cappettai 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 Parasquatina cappettai, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Parasquatina cappettai 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itParasquatina through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Herman 1982