Scapanorhynchus praeraphiodon

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ScapanorhynchusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes

Time the record covers

At least 5.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 106.3 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 110.1 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 3 of 5 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 5 occurrencesLate Cretaceous111–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences109–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences108–108 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences107–107 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences106.3 Mya100.5 Mya110.6 Mya93.4 Mya

5 occurrences of Scapanorhynchus praeraphiodon on record, most of them in the Early 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

5 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

2 formations

Hunstanton — 54.15°N, 0.17°WLewisville — 32.88°N, 97.07°W

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The named rock units Scapanorhynchus praeraphiodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scapanorhynchus praeraphiodon and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Scapanorhynchus praeraphiodon and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

55 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Scapanorhynchus praeraphiodon, 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

4 references

Each of the 5 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 Scapanorhynchus praeraphiodon 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 Scapanorhynchus praeraphiodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Scapanorhynchus praeraphiodon 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sokolov 1978