Scoliodon

Scoliodon is a genus of requiem sharks in the family Carcharhinidae. It was formerly thought to include only a single Indo-Pacific species, the spadenose shark, but recent taxonomic research has found an additional species, the Pacific spadenose shark.

Scoliodon

Dr. Raju Kasambe · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CarcharhinidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes

Time the record covers

At least 36 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 48 occurrencesEocene — about 27 of 48 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 48 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 20 of 48 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 48 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–46 Mya — about 3 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 3 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 3 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 3 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 3 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–9.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.6–7.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.8–6.1 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences6.1–4.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48.07 Mya11.63 Mya57 Mya4 Mya

48 occurrences of Scoliodon on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

48 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

23 formations

Dongen — 52.73°N, 6.30°ELagos-Portimão — 37.08°N, 8.28°WLagos-Portimão — 37.12°N, 8.54°WLagos-Portimão — 37.08°N, 8.67°WGosport Sand — 31.53°N, 87.57°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 88.50°WGosport Sand — 31.59°N, 88.02°WTallahatta — 31.31°N, 88.73°WTallahatta — 31.79°N, 88.32°WTallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°WEarnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°WStone City — 30.67°N, 96.56°WLisbon — 31.36°N, 86.52°WAlai Beds — 42.00°N, 76.00°ESimferopol — 45.17°N, 34.60°ESimferopol — 45.11°N, 34.70°EHarudi — 23.57°N, 68.65°EDam — 25.98°N, 49.39°ETrent — 35.07°N, 77.15°WChengapara — 25.17°N, 90.67°EBreda — 51.97°N, 6.73°EPiram Conglomerate — 21.62°N, 72.38°EBaripada Limestone — 21.93°N, 86.72°EPunta Judas — 9.52°N, 84.53°WLangental Beds — 27.40°S, 15.41°EUscari — 9.57°N, 82.57°WBissex Hill — 13.22°N, 59.55°WScotland — 13.21°N, 59.56°WOsinovaya — 48.38°N, 41.93°ESzurdokpüspöki — 47.93°N, 19.76°E

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The named rock units Scoliodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scoliodon and its relatives

Eocene

Where Scoliodon and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

760 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Scoliodon, 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

26 references

Each of the 48 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. 14 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 content2

Picture of Scoliodon

Credit
Dr. Raju Kasambe
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

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not stated by the source
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Specimen
Scoliodon laticaudus · UF:Fish:159315

The description on this site

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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. (Muller and Henle 1837)