Scyllium

No picture of Scyllium 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 Scyllium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 4 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 4 occurrencesLate Cretaceous107–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100.5 Mya83.6 Mya107 Mya71.5 Mya

4 occurrences of Scyllium 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

4 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

Ahlen — 51.83°N, 7.83°EJiesia — 55.08°N, 24.44°E

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The named rock units Scyllium 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.

Scyllium and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

50 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Scyllium, 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 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 Scyllium 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 Scyllium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Scyllium was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itScyliorhinidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cuvier 1817