Propristis schweinfurthi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PropristisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
33 occurrences of Propristis schweinfurthi on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
33 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
20 formations
- Qasr el-Sagha Formation4
- Samlat Formation3
- Birket Qarun Formation3
- Selsey Formation · Bracklesham Group2
- Ameki Formation · Bende-Ameki Group2
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group2
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The named rock units Propristis schweinfurthi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Propristis schweinfurthi and its relatives
EoceneWhere Propristis schweinfurthi and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
630 taxa- Pristis lathami15 sites
- Brachycarcharias twiggsensis14 sites
- Myliobatis14 sites
- Carcharhinus12 sites
- Hemipristis curvatus12 sites
- Galeocerdo latidens10 sites
- Macrorhizodus praecursor9 sites
- Rhinoptera9 sites
- Abdounia8 sites
- Cylindracanthus rectus8 sites
- Dasyatis8 sites
- Otodus (Carcharocles) sokolowi8 sites
- Abdounia enniskilleni7 sites
- Aetomylaeus dixoni7 sites
- Anoxypristis7 sites
- Carcharhinus frequens7 sites
- Isurus praecursor7 sites
- Nebrius thielensi7 sites
- Paralopias alabamensis7 sites
- Physogaleus secundus7 sites
- Rhizoprionodon7 sites
- Sphyraena7 sites
- Abdounia minutissima6 sites
- Aetobatus irregularis6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Propristis schweinfurthi, 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
22 references- Shark and ray faunas in the Middle and Late Eocene of the Fayum Area, Egypt5
- Sharks and rays from the Mokattamian Stage (middle and late Eocene) of Egypt, including some species from the middle Eocene Midra Shale of Qatar3
- A Middle–Late Eocene vertebrate fauna (marine fish and mammals) from southwestern Morocco; preliminary report: age and palaeobiogeographical implications3
- Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the elasmobranchs and bony fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) of the lower-to-middle Eocene (Ypresian to Bartonian) Claiborne Group in Alabama, USA, including an analysis of otoliths2
- Paleoecology and biostratigraphy of marginal marine gulf coast Eocene vertebrate localities2
- The Selsey Division (Bracklesham Group) at Lee-on-the-Solent, Gosport, (Hants)2
- Late Eocene fishes from the Tupelo Bay Formation of South Carolina, USA1
- Middle Eocene vertebrate fauna from the Aridal Formation, Sabkha of Gueran, southwestern Morocco1
- Diversity and renewal of tropical elasmobranchs around the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO) in North Africa: New data from the lagoonal deposits of Djebel el Kébar, Central Tunisia1
- Priabonian sharks and rays (Late Eocene: Neoselachii) from Minqar Tabaghbagh in the Western Qattara Depression, Egypt1
- First record of the extinct sawfish Propristis schweinfurthi Dames, 1883 (Batoidea: Pristiformes: Pristidae) from the middle Eocene of Spain1
- Tawadros, 20011
Each of the 33 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. 10 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
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No picture of Propristis schweinfurthi 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 Propristis schweinfurthi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Propristis schweinfurthi 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Priem 1897