Squatinidae

Squatinidae

RYO SATO from Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
angel sharkPBDB
Sits inside
SquatiniformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Squatiniformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Squatiniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Squatiniformes

Time the record covers

At least 154 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 443 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 443 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 443 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 443 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 75 of 443 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 119 of 443 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 23 of 443 occurrencesEocene — about 86 of 443 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 20 of 443 occurrencesMiocene — about 84 of 443 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 19 of 443 occurrencesPleistocene — about 12 of 443 occurrences205–199 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences199–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–185 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences185–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–164 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences164–157 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences157–151 Mya — about 1 occurrence151–144 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences144–137 Mya — about 1 occurrence137–130 Mya — about 3 occurrences130–123 Mya — about 2 occurrences123–116 Mya — about 9 occurrences116–110 Mya — about 9 occurrences110–103 Mya — about 35 occurrences103–96 Mya — about 28 occurrences96–89 Mya — about 9 occurrences89–82 Mya — about 15 occurrences82–75 Mya — about 32 occurrences75–68 Mya — about 36 occurrences68–62 Mya — about 20 occurrences62–55 Mya — about 20 occurrences55–48 Mya — about 17 occurrences48–41 Mya — about 28 occurrences41–34 Mya — about 37 occurrences34–27 Mya — about 17 occurrences27–21 Mya — about 9 occurrences21–14 Mya — about 37 occurrences14–6.8 Mya — about 37 occurrences6.8–0 Mya — about 39 occurrences154.8 Mya11.7 ka205 Mya0 Mya

443 occurrences of Squatinidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

443 occurrences

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

170 formations

Hunstanton — 54.15°N, 0.17°WHunstanton — 53.68°N, 0.50°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.60°WLa Meseta — 64.25°S, 56.67°WFox Hills — 46.05°N, 103.88°WFox Hills — 46.47°N, 99.58°WFox Hills — 44.52°N, 102.39°WNavesink — 39.95°N, 74.79°WNavesink — 40.35°N, 74.17°WNavesink — 40.38°N, 74.21°WBerchem — 51.20°N, 4.44°EPalos Verdes Sand — 33.76°N, 118.29°WPalos Verdes Sand — 34.00°N, 118.20°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.90°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.75°N, 118.29°WSpeeton Clay — 54.15°N, 0.17°WLondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELondon Clay — 51.45°N, 0.16°WLondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 50.88°N, 1.30°WCalvert — 38.60°N, 76.51°WCalvert — 38.40°N, 76.50°WCalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WCalvert — 37.93°N, 77.51°WCalvert — 38.16°N, 76.83°WSables de Bracheux — 49.58°N, 2.65°ESables de Bracheux — 49.53°N, 2.75°EDongen — 52.73°N, 6.30°EDongen — 53.16°N, 6.22°EVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EMarshalltown — 40.30°N, 74.30°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WNewhaven Chalk — 51.45°N, 1.36°WNewhaven Chalk — 50.88°N, 0.81°WNewhaven Chalk — 51.53°N, 0.70°WBurim — 49.72°N, 31.51°EHythe — 51.24°N, 0.05°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WParana — 31.38°S, 60.23°WParana — 31.71°S, 60.55°WParana — 32.08°S, 60.49°WGehannam — 29.33°N, 30.08°EGehannam — 29.30°N, 30.05°EBirket Qarun — 29.28°N, 30.03°EFerriby — 54.15°N, 0.17°WAshley — 33.05°N, 80.40°WAshley — 32.95°N, 80.18°WAshley — 32.97°N, 80.20°WHorcón — 32.70°S, 71.46°WMarnes de Donzacq — 43.75°N, 0.84°W

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The named rock units Squatinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 146 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 113 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Squatinidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Squatinidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

3,801 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 413 sites for Squatinidae, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

229 references

Each of the 443 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. 217 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 content1

Picture of Squatinidae

Credit
RYO SATO from Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Squatinidae 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 itSquatiniformes through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bonaparte 1838