Pseudoscapanorhynchidae

Pseudoscapanorhynchidae

Uncredited · 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
LamniformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes

Time the record covers

At least 84 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 226 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 60 of 226 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 165 of 226 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 226 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 226 occurrencesEocene145–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–138 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences138–134 Mya — about 1 occurrence134–131 Mya — about 1 occurrence131–127 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences127–123 Mya — about 6 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 5 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 6 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 6 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 7 occurrences109–105 Mya — about 8 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 15 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 35 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 41 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 37 occurrences90–87 Mya — about 16 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 17 occurrences83–79 Mya — about 6 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 6 occurrences76–72 Mya — about 6 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–65 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–39 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132.6 Mya48.07 Mya145 Mya36 Mya

226 occurrences of Pseudoscapanorhynchidae on record, most of them in the Late 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

226 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

66 formations

Burim — 49.71°N, 31.54°ECarlile Shale — 39.30°N, 98.45°WCarlile Shale — 43.40°N, 103.36°WCarlile Shale — 39.78°N, 98.15°WCarlile Shale — 42.74°N, 97.03°WCarlile Shale — 39.04°N, 99.07°WCarlile Shale — 39.06°N, 99.11°WCarlile Shale — 43.25°N, 103.92°WCarlile Shale — 44.09°N, 104.68°WCarlile Shale — 38.10°N, 101.96°WAïn el Guettar — 33.17°N, 10.26°EAïn el Guettar — 32.66°N, 10.21°EAïn el Guettar — 33.12°N, 10.27°EPaluxy — 32.95°N, 97.69°WPaluxy — 31.95°N, 97.89°WPaluxy — 33.03°N, 97.60°WPaluxy — 31.87°N, 98.86°WPaluxy — 32.36°N, 97.99°WPaluxy — 31.79°N, 98.83°WGreenhorn Limestone — 37.22°N, 103.60°WGreenhorn Limestone — 44.65°N, 103.58°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.78°N, 98.96°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.74°N, 99.04°WGreenhorn Limestone — 34.98°N, 103.41°WGreenhorn Limestone — 37.65°N, 103.93°WNavesink — 40.35°N, 74.17°WNavesink — 40.38°N, 74.21°WEutaw — 32.38°N, 84.93°WEutaw — 33.49°N, 88.39°WEutaw — 32.32°N, 86.39°WMancos Shale — 39.00°N, 110.35°WMancos Shale — 38.36°N, 110.82°WMancos Shale — 36.18°N, 109.88°WMancos Shale — 35.47°N, 106.20°WMarshalltown — 40.30°N, 74.30°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WColeraine — 47.42°N, 93.08°WDunvegan — 55.91°N, 118.35°WDunvegan — 55.92°N, 118.60°WGraneros Shale — 40.01°N, 97.17°WGraneros Shale — 38.93°N, 98.91°WBurgsteinfurt — 52.19°S, 7.17°EBurgsteinfurt — 52.19°N, 7.17°EDakota — 40.06°N, 97.34°WDakota — 38.92°N, 98.50°WAtco — 32.53°N, 96.99°WMaisières — 50.49°N, 3.96°ECarlile — 36.12°N, 104.74°WCarlile — 43.96°N, 104.44°WCarlile — 44.14°N, 104.71°WLa Cabaña — 43.34°N, 5.84°WContinental Intercalaire — 33.19°N, 10.29°EPaw Paw — 33.03°N, 97.22°WJiesia — 55.06°N, 24.37°EHinoshima — 32.40°N, 130.40°ETamagawa — 40.19°N, 141.78°EBelle Fourche — 43.29°N, 103.80°WBelle Fourche — 43.97°N, 103.18°W

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The named rock units Pseudoscapanorhynchidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 42 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 87 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pseudoscapanorhynchidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Pseudoscapanorhynchidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

931 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 175 sites for Pseudoscapanorhynchidae, 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

107 references

Each of the 226 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. 95 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

Media content1

Picture of Pseudoscapanorhynchidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Pseudoscapanorhynchidae 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 itLamniformes through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Herman 1979