Squatiscyllium

Squatiscyllium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrectolobidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Orectolobiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Orectolobiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Orectolobiformes

Time the record covers

At least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 41.03 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 12 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 12 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 9 of 12 occurrencesEocene84–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72.2 Mya48.07 Mya84.5 Mya40.2 Mya

12 occurrences of Squatiscyllium 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

12 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

4 formations

Matam — 15.32°N, 13.03°WJudith River — 46.42°N, 109.27°WJudith River — 46.10°N, 109.10°WJbel Tagount — 31.42°N, 6.31°WCouche I — 32.85°N, 6.63°W

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The named rock units Squatiscyllium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Squatiscyllium and its relatives

Eocene

Where Squatiscyllium and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

95 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Squatiscyllium, 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

5 references

Each of the 12 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 content1

Picture of Squatiscyllium

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Squatiscyllium 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 itOrectolobidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cappetta 1980