Carcharias tenuis

Searched as Scapanorhynchus tenuis. The Paleobiology Database treats Carcharias tenuis as the accepted name.

No picture of Carcharias tenuis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Carcharias tenuis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 13 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 8 of 13 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 13 occurrencesPaleocene107–106 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 1 occurrence84–82 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–62 Mya — about 1 occurrence62–61 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences100.5 Mya66 Mya107.2 Mya60.8 Mya

13 occurrences of Carcharias tenuis 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

13 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

4 formations

Jiesia — 55.06°N, 24.37°EEutaw — 32.38°N, 84.93°WKøbenhavn Limestone — 55.57°N, 12.93°EPoint Lookout — 35.20°N, 107.05°W

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The named rock units Carcharias tenuis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Carcharias tenuis and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Carcharias tenuis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

248 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Carcharias tenuis, 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

7 references

Each of the 13 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. 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 Carcharias tenuis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia 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 Carcharias tenuis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Carcharias tenuis 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 itCarcharias through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Davis 1890)