Rhinobatos whitfieldi
No picture of Rhinobatos whitfieldi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Rhinobatos whitfieldi itself, so it was not used. 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 Rhinobatos whitfieldi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhinobatosPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Rhinobatos whitfieldi 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
2 occurrences- Late 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Rhinobatos whitfieldi 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.
Rhinobatos whitfieldi and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Rhinobatos whitfieldi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Anguillavus quadripinnis2 sites
- Hayenchelys germanus2 sites
- Libanopristis hiram2 sites
- Acrognathus dodgei1 site
- Aipichthys minor1 site
- Anguillavus mazeni1 site
- Benthesikyme serpentina1 site
- Calliaxina hadjoulaensis1 site
- Coccodus insignis1 site
- Cretodus semiplicatus1 site
- Ctenothrissa signifer1 site
- Cyclobatis major1 site
- Cyclobatis oligodactylus1 site
- Enchodus marchesettii1 site
- Eryma oscari1 site
- Eubiodectes libanicus1 site
- Ichthyotringa delicata1 site
- Libanoaxius beatae1 site
- Micropristis1 site
- Nematonotus longispinus1 site
- Pycnosteroides levispinosus1 site
- Rachiteuthis acutali1 site
- Rhinobatus eretes1 site
- Rhombopterygia rajoides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Rhinobatos whitfieldi, 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- Les sélaciens du Crétacé supérieur du Liban. II. Batoïdes1
- On a collection of upper Cretaceous fishes from Mount Lebanon, Syria, with descriptions of four new genera and nineteen new species1
Each of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Rhinobatos whitfieldi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Rhinobatos whitfieldi itself, so it was not used.
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 Rhinobatos whitfieldi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rhinobatos whitfieldi 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 itRhinobatos through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hay 1903)