Rhyzoprionodon sp.
No picture of Rhyzoprionodon sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Rhyzoprionodon sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At least 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
4 occurrences of Rhyzoprionodon sp. on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
4 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Rhyzoprionodon sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Rhyzoprionodon sp. and its relatives
MioceneWhere Rhyzoprionodon sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
140 taxa- Hemipristis serra4 sites
- Otodus megalodon4 sites
- Sphyrna4 sites
- Carcharhinus3 sites
- Mylobatis sp.3 sites
- Negapriom eurybathrodon3 sites
- Rhinoptera3 sites
- Arius2 sites
- Citharichthys2 sites
- Dasyatis2 sites
- Galeocerdo2 sites
- Haemulon2 sites
- Larimus2 sites
- Larimus henrii2 sites
- Mugil cephalus2 sites
- Peprilus sp.2 sites
- Symphurus2 sites
- Aetobatus arcuatus1 site
- Albula sp.1 site
- Anadara (Cunearca) brasiliana1 site
- Anadara (Cunearca) inutilis1 site
- Anadara (Cunearca) zorritoensis1 site
- Anadara (Rasia) lienosa1 site
- Anadara notabilis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Rhyzoprionodon sp., 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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
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No picture of Rhyzoprionodon sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Rhyzoprionodon sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Rhyzoprionodon sp. 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 itFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.