Squalicorax mutabilis
No picture of Squalicorax mutabilis 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 Squalicorax mutabilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Squalicorax mutabilis 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
9 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
2 formations
- Haycock Marl Formation6
- Kaskapau Formation · Smoky Group2
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The named rock units Squalicorax mutabilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Squalicorax mutabilis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Squalicorax mutabilis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Archaeolamna kopingensis3 sites
- Carcharias3 sites
- Cardabiodon ricki3 sites
- Johnlongia allocotodon3 sites
- Cretoxyrhina agassizensis2 sites
- Cretoxyrhina mantelli2 sites
- Dallasiella willistoni2 sites
- Enchodus shumardi2 sites
- Eostriatolamia striatula2 sites
- Johnlongia parvidens2 sites
- Meristodonoides rajkovichi2 sites
- Ptychodus anonymus2 sites
- Rhinobatos incertus2 sites
- Squalicorax bernardezi2 sites
- Anomotodon1 site
- Apateodus1 site
- Archaeolamna haigi1 site
- Belonostomus longirostris1 site
- Cimolichthys levesiensis1 site
- Cretalamna appendiculata1 site
- Cretalamna catoxodon1 site
- Cretodus semiplicatus1 site
- Dercetoides1 site
- Dwardius1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Squalicorax mutabilis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 9 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Squalicorax mutabilis 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 Squalicorax mutabilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Squalicorax mutabilis 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 itSqualicorax through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Siversson and Cook 2018