Phosphatobatis aegyptiaca
No picture of Phosphatobatis aegyptiaca 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 Phosphatobatis aegyptiaca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PhosphatobatisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Rajiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Rajiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Rajiformes
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Phosphatobatis aegyptiaca 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.
Phosphatobatis aegyptiaca and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Phosphatobatis aegyptiaca and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Batoidea2 sites
- Ctenopristis2 sites
- Duwibatis problematica2 sites
- Erythrobatis cuspidata2 sites
- Hamrabatis ornata2 sites
- Parapalaeobates atlanticus2 sites
- Plicatopristis strougoi2 sites
- Ptychotrygon2 sites
- Schizorhiza stromeri2 sites
- Squalicorax africanus2 sites
- Squatigaleus grandjeani2 sites
- Coupatezia1 site
- Cretalamna biauriculata1 site
- Dalpiazia stromeri1 site
- Ginglymostoma1 site
- Ischyrhiza1 site
- Rhinobatos1 site
- Rhombodus meridionalis1 site
- Safagaia ptychodon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Phosphatobatis aegyptiaca, 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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Phosphatobatis aegyptiaca 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 Phosphatobatis aegyptiaca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Phosphatobatis aegyptiaca 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 itPhosphatobatis through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cappetta 1991