Squalus minor
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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 least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 41.03 Mya.
31 occurrences of Squalus minor on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
31 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
17 formations
- London Clay Formation5
- Sables de Bracheux Formation3
- Dongen Formation3
- Tuffeau de St-Omer Formation3
- Earnley Formation · Bracklesham Group2
- Elmore Formation · Bracklesham Group2
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The named rock units Squalus minor 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.
Squalus minor and its relatives
EoceneWhere Squalus minor and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
567 taxa- Squatina prima20 sites
- Pachygaleus lefevrei16 sites
- Premontreia (Oxyscyllium) gilberti16 sites
- Carcharias hopei15 sites
- Odontaspis winkleri15 sites
- Isurolamna inflata14 sites
- Physogaleus secundus13 sites
- Scyliorhinus13 sites
- Hypolophodon sylvestris12 sites
- Palaeohypotodus rutoti12 sites
- Aetomylaeus dixoni11 sites
- Anomotodon novus11 sites
- Palaeogaleus vincenti11 sites
- Brachycarcharias lerichei10 sites
- Isistius trituratus10 sites
- Jaekelotodus robustus10 sites
- Squalus orpiensis10 sites
- Striatolamia striata10 sites
- Hypotodus verticalis9 sites
- Jaekelotodus trigonalis9 sites
- Carcharias8 sites
- Dasyatis jaekeli8 sites
- Glaucopristis bruxelliensis8 sites
- Otodus obliquus8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Squalus minor, 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
16 references- Les sélaciens des terrains néocrétacés and paléocènes de Belgique and des contrées limitrophes. Eléments d'une biostratigraphie intercontinentale4
- Les élasmobranches du Thanétien (Paléocène) du Nord de la France, des carrières de Templeuve et de Leforest3
- Contribution à l'étude des élasmobranches du Thanétien (Paléocène) du Bassin de Paris. 1. Découverte d'une faune d'elasmobranches dans la partie supérieure des Sables de Bracheux (Thanétien, Paléocène du Bassin de Paris) des régions de Compiègne (Oise) et de Montdidier (Somme)3
- Fossils from the Bracklesham Group exposed in the M27 Motorway excavations, Southampton, Hampshire3
- Elasmobranch teeth (Vertebrata, Pisces) from the Dongen Formation (Eocene) in The Netherlands3
- The Selsey Division (Bracklesham Group) at Lee-on-the-Solent, Gosport, (Hants)3
- Casier, 19663
- Taxonomic revision and new elasmobranch records from the Wemmel Sand and Asse Clay members, base of the Maldegem Formation (middle Lutetian, southern North Sea Basin)1
- Paleontology and stratigraphic implications of a late Paleocene elasmobranch assemblage in Talcahuano, southcentral Chile1
- Quantitative analysis of elasmobranch assemblages from two successive Ypresian (early Eocene) facies at Marke, western Belgium1
- Les ichthyofaunes du gisement à ambre de Le Quesnoy (Paléocène et Éocène du bassin de Paris, France)1
- Observations on the London Clay excavation at Aveley, Essex1
Each of the 31 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 minor 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 Squalus minor, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Squalus minor 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 EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Leriche 1870)