Sphyraenodus speciosus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SphyraenodusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At least 42 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
4 occurrences of Sphyraenodus speciosus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
- Calvert Formation · Chesapeake Group2
- Vincentown Formation1
- Kirkwood Formation1
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The named rock units Sphyraenodus speciosus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sphyraenodus speciosus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Sphyraenodus speciosus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
272 taxa- Carcharias cuspidatus3 sites
- Galeocerdo aduncus3 sites
- Hemipristis serra3 sites
- Notorynchus primigenius3 sites
- Odontoceti3 sites
- Otodus megalodon3 sites
- Sphyrna prisca3 sites
- Thecachampsa sericodon3 sites
- Aetobatis arcuatus2 sites
- Arca2 sites
- Carcharodon hastalis2 sites
- Chelone2 sites
- Cretalamna appendiculata2 sites
- Eburneopecten cerinus2 sites
- Galeocerdo2 sites
- Galeocerdo latidens2 sites
- Glycymeris2 sites
- Isocardia2 sites
- Isurus2 sites
- Isurus desorii2 sites
- Lunatia2 sites
- Myliobatis gigas2 sites
- Myliobatis pachyodon2 sites
- Ostrea2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Sphyraenodus speciosus, 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- Macrofossils from the Vincentown Formation (Paleocene) of New Jersey1
- Geological and paleontological relations, with a review of earlier investigations1
- An addition to the vertebrate fauna of the Miocene period, with a synopsis of the extinct Cetacea of the United States1
- Notices of remains of extinct vertebrated animals of New Jersey, collected by Prof. Cook of the State Geological Survey under the direction of Dr. W. Kitchell1
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 Sphyraenodus speciosus 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 Sphyraenodus speciosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sphyraenodus speciosus 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 itSphyraenodus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Leidy 1856)