Scyliorhinus

Scyliorhinus is a genus of catsharks in the family Scyliorhinidae. This genus is known in the fossil records from the Cretaceous period, late Albian age to the Pliocene epoch.

A picture published with the record for Scyliorhinus.

Hispalois · 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
ScyliorhinidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes

Time the record covers

At least 127 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 5 of 241 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 74 of 241 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 42 of 241 occurrencesEocene — about 55 of 241 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 241 occurrencesMiocene — about 53 of 241 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 241 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 241 occurrences140–135 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences135–130 Mya — about 1 occurrence130–126 Mya — about 1 occurrence126–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–117 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 4 occurrences98–93 Mya — about 7 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 6 occurrences89–84 Mya — about 11 occurrences84–80 Mya — about 10 occurrences80–75 Mya — about 8 occurrences75–70 Mya — about 12 occurrences70–66 Mya — about 19 occurrences66–61 Mya — about 22 occurrences61–56 Mya — about 17 occurrences56–52 Mya — about 10 occurrences52–47 Mya — about 11 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 17 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 11 occurrences38–33 Mya — about 9 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 3 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 5 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 19 occurrences15–10 Mya — about 22 occurrences10–5.6 Mya — about 7 occurrences5.6–931 ka Mya — about 6 occurrences132.6 Mya5.333 Mya140 Mya931 ka

241 occurrences of Scyliorhinus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

241 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

87 formations

London Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELondon Clay — 51.51°N, 0.24°ELondon Clay — 51.38°N, 0.24°WLondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 51.64°N, 0.78°ECouche II — 32.65°N, 6.68°WCouche II — 32.85°N, 6.63°WCouche II — 32.81°N, 6.83°WNewhaven Chalk — 51.45°N, 1.36°WNewhaven Chalk — 51.53°N, 0.70°WMarnes de Donzacq — 43.75°N, 0.84°WLagos-Portimão — 37.08°N, 8.28°WLagos-Portimão — 37.12°N, 8.54°WLagos-Portimão — 37.08°N, 8.67°WRødvig — 55.32°N, 12.44°EElmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WMaastricht — 50.83°N, 5.68°EMaastricht — 50.84°N, 5.79°EOiching — 47.94°N, 13.01°ENeuhofen — 48.50°N, 14.28°EMarnes de Miretrain — 43.69°N, 1.13°WMatam — 15.32°N, 13.03°WGulpen — 50.79°N, 5.65°EGulpen — 50.75°N, 5.65°EGerhartsreit — 47.80°N, 12.62°EBerchem — 51.19°N, 4.42°EGerharsreit — 47.81°N, 12.66°EGerharsreit — 47.87°N, 12.83°ETor — 55.32°N, 12.44°EEarnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°WMishash — 30.87°N, 34.94°EMishash — 30.83°N, 34.92°EBreda — 51.97°N, 6.73°EBreda — 51.47°N, 5.80°EAlzey — 49.83°N, 7.72°ESamlat — 23.36°N, 16.03°WUscari — 9.57°N, 82.57°W

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The named rock units Scyliorhinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 63 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 71 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scyliorhinus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Scyliorhinus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

2,813 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 191 sites for Scyliorhinus, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

110 references

Each of the 241 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. 98 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 content3

Picture of Scyliorhinus

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3D scan

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Specimen
Scyliorhinus retifer · L-NS

3D model

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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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What may have been alongside itScyliorhinidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blainville 1816