Plicatoscyllium

No picture of Plicatoscyllium 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 Plicatoscyllium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GinglymostomatidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Orectolobiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Orectolobiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Orectolobiformes

Time the record covers

At least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 76 of 79 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 79 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 79 occurrencesEocene87–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 3 occurrences82–80 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 7 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 14 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 14 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 14 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 6 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72.2 Mya48.07 Mya86.7 Mya36.8 Mya

79 occurrences of Plicatoscyllium 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

79 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

23 formations

Marshalltown — 40.30°N, 74.30°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WFox Hills — 46.47°N, 99.58°WFox Hills — 46.05°N, 103.88°WNavesink — 40.35°N, 74.17°WNavesink — 40.38°N, 74.21°WKemp Clay — 33.21°N, 95.92°WMesaverde — 44.06°N, 107.72°WSevern — 38.96°N, 76.71°WCouche III — 32.85°N, 6.63°WPeedee — 34.38°N, 77.83°WMaastricht — 50.78°N, 5.70°EArkadelphia — 34.38°N, 92.85°WBlufftown — 32.16°N, 85.03°WAruma — 28.76°N, 43.74°ECusseta — 32.14°N, 84.95°WPhosphorite Unit — 32.02°N, 36.03°ECouche 2 — 34.32°N, 5.85°WGulpen — 50.82°N, 5.68°EValdenoceda — 42.90°N, 3.30°WTorme — 42.67°N, 2.63°WCoffee Sand — 34.44°N, 88.58°WNorthumberland — 49.55°N, 124.70°WTar Heel — 34.61°N, 78.60°WDemopolis — 34.58°N, 88.63°WWulagen — 39.69°N, 75.27°E

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The named rock units Plicatoscyllium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 41 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plicatoscyllium and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

494 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 68 sites for Plicatoscyllium, 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

34 references

Each of the 79 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. 22 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 content0

No picture of Plicatoscyllium 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 Plicatoscyllium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Plicatoscyllium 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 itGinglymostomatidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Case and Cappetta 1997