Squalodon bellunensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SqualodonPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Odontoceti
- Life habit
- aquatic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Cetacea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cetacea
- Environment
- marine,freshwaterPBDB, for Odontoceti
Time the record covers
At least 6.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
7 occurrences of Squalodon bellunensis 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
7 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
5 formations
- Libano Sandstone Formation2
- Tsotilion Formation1
- Salsomaggiore Formation1
- Melker Sand Formation1
- Libano Formation1
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The named rock units Squalodon bellunensis 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.
Squalodon bellunensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Squalodon bellunensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
67 taxa- Odontoceti3 sites
- Carcharias cuspidatus2 sites
- Cybium2 sites
- Dalpiazina ombonii2 sites
- Idiorophus bolzanensis2 sites
- Otodus megalodon2 sites
- Schizodelphis sulcatus2 sites
- Squalodontidae2 sites
- Trionyx2 sites
- Ziphiodelphis abeli2 sites
- Aglyptorhynchus denticulatus1 site
- Carcharias acutissimus1 site
- Carcharias contortidens1 site
- Carcharodon1 site
- Carcharodon hastalis1 site
- Cheloniidae1 site
- Crocodylia1 site
- Delphinidae1 site
- Diplocynodon ungeri1 site
- Dugongidae1 site
- Elomeryx borbonicus1 site
- Emydidae1 site
- Eoplatanista gresalensis1 site
- Eoplatanista italica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Squalodon bellunensis, 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
6 references- Alcuni resti di Squalodon dell'Arenaria Miocenica di Belluno2
- I Cetacei fossili del Museo di Geologia e Paleontologia dell’Università di Padova1
- Shark-toothed dolphin remains (Mammalia, Cetacea, Squalodontidae) from the early Miocene of Greece1
- The lower Serravallian cetacean fauna of Visiano (Northern Apennines, Parma, Italy)1
- Wirbeltierfunde aus der palaogenen Molasse Osterreichs und ihre stratigraphische Bedeutung1
- Gli Odontoceti del Miocene Bellunese Parte Seconda: Squalodon1
Each of the 7 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 Squalodon bellunensis 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 Squalodon bellunensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Squalodon bellunensis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dal Piaz 1901)