Pristiophorus striatus

Pristiophorus striatus is an extinct species of sawshark in the genus Pristiophorus. It existed in what is now Slovakia during the Miocene epoch, and was described by Charlie J. Underwood and Jan Schlogl in 2012.

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

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 4.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 20.45 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 7 of 7 occurrencesMiocene21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20.9 Mya15.5 Mya

7 occurrences of Pristiophorus striatus 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

7 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

2 formations

Laksarska Nova Ves — 48.59°N, 17.38°ENeuhofen — 48.50°N, 14.28°E

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The named rock units Pristiophorus striatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Pristiophorus striatus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pristiophorus striatus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

25 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Pristiophorus striatus, 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

Each of the 7 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 striatus 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 striatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pristiophorus striatus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Underwood and Schlogl 2013