Protolamna sarstedtensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtolamnaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes
Time the record covers
At least 1.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 110.1 Mya.
3 occurrences of Protolamna sarstedtensis on record, most of them in the Early 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
3 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
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The named rock units Protolamna sarstedtensis 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.
Protolamna sarstedtensis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Protolamna sarstedtensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Leptostyrax stychi3 sites
- Aspidorhynchiformes2 sites
- Caturus2 sites
- Chiloscyllium2 sites
- Crocodyliformes2 sites
- Cylindrobullina2 sites
- Egertonodus basanus2 sites
- Eostriatolamia2 sites
- Gyrodus2 sites
- Heterodontus2 sites
- Holocephali2 sites
- Lamnidae2 sites
- Lonchidion breve2 sites
- Ocloedus2 sites
- Parvodus parvidens2 sites
- Planohybodus ensis2 sites
- Pycnodontiformes2 sites
- Scheenstia2 sites
- Semionotiformes2 sites
- Squatina2 sites
- Vectiselachos ornatus2 sites
- Gladioserratus aptiensis1 site
- Hexanchiformes1 site
- Notidanodon lanceolatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Protolamna sarstedtensis, 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- Microvertebrates from the Lower Greensand Group (Lower Cretaceous) of Clophill, Bedfordshire, UK, and Nutfield, Surrey, UK2
- Two new lamniform sharks (Leptostyrax stychi sp. nov. and Protolamna sarstedtensis sp. nov.) from the Early Cretaceous of NW Germany1
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Protolamna sarstedtensis 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 Protolamna sarstedtensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protolamna sarstedtensis 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 itProtolamna through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schmitz et al. 2010