Rajidae

No picture of Rajidae was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Rajidae itself, so it was not used. Wikidata 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 Rajidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
skatePBDB
Sits inside
RajiformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Rajiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Rajiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Rajiformes

Time the record covers

At least 201 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 252 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 252 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 252 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 252 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 252 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 23 of 252 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 252 occurrencesEocene — about 39 of 252 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 62 of 252 occurrencesMiocene — about 72 of 252 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 33 of 252 occurrencesPleistocene — about 18 of 252 occurrences210–203 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences203–196 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–91 Mya — about 2 occurrences91–84 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–77 Mya — about 3 occurrences77–70 Mya — about 6 occurrences70–63 Mya — about 8 occurrences63–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–49 Mya — about 4 occurrences49–42 Mya — about 16 occurrences42–35 Mya — about 19 occurrences35–28 Mya — about 48 occurrences28–21 Mya — about 17 occurrences21–14 Mya — about 23 occurrences14–7.0 Mya — about 38 occurrences7.0–0 Mya — about 62 occurrences201.4 Mya11.7 ka210 Mya0 Mya

252 occurrences of Rajidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

252 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

75 formations

Boom Clay — 51.13°N, 4.26°EBoom Clay — 51.12°N, 4.35°EBoom Clay — 51.19°N, 4.32°EBoom Clay — 51.16°N, 4.13°EMarnes de Donzacq — 43.75°N, 0.84°WPurisima — 37.29°N, 122.41°WLa Meseta — 64.23°S, 56.65°WBerchem — 51.20°N, 4.44°EArenas de Huelva — 37.33°N, 6.68°WArenas de Huelva — 37.35°N, 6.61°WArenas de Huelva — 37.27°N, 6.84°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.76°N, 118.29°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.90°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.75°N, 118.29°WNeuhofen — 48.50°N, 14.28°EBahía Inglesa — 27.13°S, 70.83°WBahía Inglesa — 26.22°S, 70.72°WBahía Inglesa — 27.16°S, 70.89°WEsbarrondadoiro — 38.17°N, 8.17°WEsbarrondadoiro — 38.11°N, 8.36°WEsbarrondadoiro — 39.30°N, 8.12°WAshley — 32.95°N, 80.18°WAshley — 32.97°N, 80.20°WVaals Greensand — 51.74°N, 6.09°EDongen — 52.73°N, 6.30°EDongen — 53.16°N, 6.22°ESternberg — 53.67°N, 11.82°EOosterhout — 51.70°N, 5.73°EBreda — 52.15°N, 6.61°EBreda — 51.70°N, 5.73°EBreda — 51.47°N, 5.80°ERupel — 51.22°N, 12.33°EPort Orford — 42.83°N, 124.55°WHorcón — 32.70°S, 71.46°WChandler Bridge — 33.03°N, 80.27°WParana — 31.71°S, 60.55°WParana — 32.08°S, 60.49°WHrušky — 48.81°N, 16.63°ECalvert — 38.16°N, 76.83°WGreenhorn Limestone — 37.46°N, 103.05°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.78°N, 98.96°W

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The named rock units Rajidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 51 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 48 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rajidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Rajidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,577 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 198 sites for Rajidae, 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 252 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 content0

No picture of Rajidae was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Rajidae itself, so it was not used.

Wikidata 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 Rajidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Rajidae 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 itRajiformes through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blainville 1816