Pristiophorus lanceolata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PristiophorusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Pristiophoriformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Pristiophoriformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Pristiophoriformes
Time the record covers
At most 22 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Pristiophorus lanceolata on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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 occurrencesThese 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 Pristiophorus lanceolata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pristiophorus lanceolata and its relatives
MioceneWhere Pristiophorus lanceolata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
59 taxa- Ikamauius ensiler3 sites
- Carcharhinus (Prionodon) aculeatus2 sites
- Myliobatis plicatilis2 sites
- Odontaspis exigua2 sites
- Odontaspis incurva2 sites
- Sargus laticonus2 sites
- Brissus1 site
- Carcharias contortidens1 site
- Carcharodon hastalis1 site
- Cestracion coleridgensis1 site
- Cestracion novozelandicus1 site
- Cidaris1 site
- Comatula1 site
- Crepidula unguiformis1 site
- Cristellaria rotulata1 site
- Cucullaea1 site
- Echinus1 site
- Galeocerdo aduncus1 site
- Globularia1 site
- Graphularia robinae1 site
- Hexanchus gigas1 site
- Isurus retroflexus1 site
- Kentriodontidae1 site
- Laeviranina perarmata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pristiophorus lanceolata, 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- On fossil-fish remains from the Tertiary and Cretaceo-Tertiary formations of New Zealand2
- On the geology of the Clarendon phosphate deposits, Otago, New Zealand1
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Pristiophorus lanceolata 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 Pristiophorus lanceolata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pristiophorus lanceolata 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 itPristiophorus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Davis 1888)