Squalicorax bassanii
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SqualicoraxPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
19 occurrences of Squalicorax bassanii 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
19 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
6 formations
- Mishash Formation2
- Aguja Formation1
- Phosphorite Unit Formation · Balqa Group1
- Ghared Formation1
- Amman Formation1
- Duwi Formation1
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The named rock units Squalicorax bassanii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Squalicorax bassanii and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Squalicorax bassanii and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
153 taxa- Squalicorax pristodontus14 sites
- Dalpiazia stromeri11 sites
- Rhinobatos10 sites
- Chelonioidea9 sites
- Cretalamna maroccana9 sites
- Elasmosauridae9 sites
- Enchodus elegans9 sites
- Plicatoscyllium9 sites
- Cretalamna biauriculata8 sites
- Plioplatecarpinae8 sites
- Rhombodus binkhorsti8 sites
- Stephanodus8 sites
- Ganopristis leptodon7 sites
- Schizorhiza stromeri7 sites
- Stratodus apicalis7 sites
- Carcharias6 sites
- Hypsobatis6 sites
- Parapalaeobates atlanticus6 sites
- Pycnodontidae6 sites
- Rhombodus meridionalis6 sites
- Youssoubatis6 sites
- Coupatezia5 sites
- Cretalamna appendiculata5 sites
- Ctenopristis5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Squalicorax bassanii, 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
9 references- The marine vertebrate faunas from the Late Cretaceous phosphates of Syria5
- Marine vertebrate faunas from the Maastrichtian phosphates of Benguérir (Ganntour Basin, Morocco): Biostratigraphy, palaeobiogeography and palaeoecology4
- Senonian elasmobranch teeth from Israel. Biostratigraphic and paleoenvironmental implications3
- New biostratigraphical data on the marine Upper Cretaceous and Palaeogene of Jordan2
- Egyptian shark graveyard: New Late Cretaceous lamniform shark assemblage from Duwi Formation of Abu-Tartur area, southwestern Desert, Egypt1
- A Late Cretaceous (Campanian) marine vertebrate microfauna from the Aguja Formation of Chihuahua, Mexico1
- Marine reptiles from the Late Cretaceous Phosphates of Jordan: palaeobiogeographical implications1
- A selachian fauna from the Late Cretaceous of Jordan1
- Découverte de nouvelles faunes de sélaciens (Neoselachii) dans les phosphates maastrichtiens de la Mer Rouge, Egypte1
Each of the 19 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.
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No picture of Squalicorax bassanii 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 Squalicorax bassanii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Squalicorax bassanii 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 itSqualicorax through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gemmellaro 1919)