Pseudocarcharias

Pseudocarcharias

NOAA Observer Program · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PseudocarchariidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 16 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 16 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 16 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 14 of 16 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 16 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.8–8.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.0–6.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.2–4.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.4–2.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48.07 Mya7.246 Mya57 Mya3 Mya

16 occurrences of Pseudocarcharias on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

16 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

8 formations

Pirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WPirabas — 1.21°S, 47.16°WEsbarrondadoiro — 39.30°N, 8.12°WEsbarrondadoiro — 38.11°N, 8.36°WChagres Sandstone — 9.28°N, 80.04°WCatahoula — 31.66°N, 88.66°WChagres — 9.27°N, 80.06°WPisco — 14.35°S, 75.89°WTunga — 14.27°S, 76.05°WCubagua — 10.57°N, 64.24°W

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The named rock units Pseudocarcharias has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pseudocarcharias and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pseudocarcharias and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

437 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Pseudocarcharias, 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

11 references

Each of the 16 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. 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

Media content2

Picture of Pseudocarcharias

Credit
NOAA Observer Program
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Pseudocarcharias kamoharai · zmuc:p:7

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 itPseudocarchariidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cadenat 1963