Plicatoscyllium minutum

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 11 of 12 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 12 occurrencesEocene73–72 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66 Mya48.07 Mya72.9 Mya37 Mya

12 occurrences of Plicatoscyllium minutum on record. 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

12 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

5 formations

Maastricht — 50.78°N, 5.70°EGulpen — 50.82°N, 5.68°ETorme — 42.67°N, 2.63°WCouche III — 32.85°N, 6.63°WWulagen — 39.69°N, 75.27°E

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The named rock units Plicatoscyllium minutum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

82 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Plicatoscyllium minutum, 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

5 references

Each of the 12 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 Plicatoscyllium minutum 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 Plicatoscyllium minutum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Plicatoscyllium minutum 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.

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What may have been alongside itPlicatoscyllium through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Forir 1887)