Pseudocetorhinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CetorhinidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, carnivorePBDB, for Cetorhinidae
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Cetorhinidae
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Cetorhinidae
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 205.7 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Pseudocetorhinus on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
10 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
3 formations
- Westbury Formation · Penarth Group2
- Lilstock Formation2
- Exter Formation1
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The named rock units Pseudocetorhinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pseudocetorhinus and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Pseudocetorhinus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
82 taxa- Lissodus minimus9 sites
- Nemacanthus monilifer6 sites
- Birgeria5 sites
- Birgeria acuminata5 sites
- Gyrolepis albertii5 sites
- Polyacrodus cloacinus5 sites
- Sargodon tomicus5 sites
- Synechodus rhaeticus5 sites
- Duffinselache holwellensis4 sites
- Neoselachii4 sites
- Gyrolepis3 sites
- Lepidotes3 sites
- Pseudodalatias barnstonensis3 sites
- Archosauriformes2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Saurichthys2 sites
- Saurichthys longidens2 sites
- Thomasia antiqua2 sites
- Vallisodus coppi2 sites
- Agkistracanthus mitgelensis1 site
- Alisporites1 site
- Archosauria1 site
- Ceratodus1 site
- Chasmatosporites magnolioides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Pseudocetorhinus, 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
7 references- Microvertebrates from the classic Rhaetian bone beds of Manor Farm Quarry, near Aust (Bristol, UK)3
- Teeth of enigmatic neoselachian sharks and an ornithischian dinosaur from the uppermost Triassic of Lons-le-Saunier (Jura, France)2
- A taxonomic and paleoecological review of the Rhaetian chondrichthyan fauna of Bonenburg (NRW) Germany1
- Microvertebrates from the Rhaetian bone beds at Blue Anchor Bay, Somerset1
- Ichthyosaurs from the French Rhaetian indicate a severe turnover across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary1
- New shark remains from the British Rhaetian (latest Triassic) 1. The earliest basking shark1
- Late Triassic vertebrates from Syren (Luxembourg)1
Each of the 10 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 Pseudocetorhinus 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 Pseudocetorhinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pseudocetorhinus 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 itCetorhinidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Duffin 1998