Squalus huntensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SqualusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Squaliformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Squaliformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Squaliformes
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Squalus huntensis 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
2 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
- Kemp Clay Formation · Navarro Group1
- Peedee Formation1
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The named rock units Squalus huntensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Squalus huntensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Squalus huntensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Cantioscyllium meyeri2 sites
- Carcharias samhammeri2 sites
- Cretalamna maroccana2 sites
- Dasyatis commercensis2 sites
- Heterodontus granti2 sites
- Hexanchus2 sites
- Ischyrhiza mira2 sites
- Odontaspis aculeatus2 sites
- Paranomotodon toddi2 sites
- Plicatoscyllium antiquum2 sites
- Plicatoscyllium derameei2 sites
- Raja farishi2 sites
- Rhombodus binkhorsti2 sites
- Sclerorhynchus pettersi2 sites
- Serratolamna serrata2 sites
- Squalicorax kaupi2 sites
- Squalicorax pristodontus2 sites
- Texatrygon avonicola2 sites
- Carcharias holmdelensis1 site
- Coupatezia turneri1 site
- Cretorectolobus olsoni1 site
- Galeorhinus girardoti1 site
- Ginglymostoma1 site
- Hamrabatis weltoni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Squalus huntensis, 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
2 references- A late Maastrichtian selachian assemblage from the Peedee Formation of North Carolina, USA.1
- A new selachian fauna from the Late Maastrichtian of Texas (Upper Cretaceous/Navarroan; Kemp Formation)1
Each of the 2 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.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Squalus huntensis 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 Squalus huntensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Squalus huntensis 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 itSqualus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Case and Cappetta 1997