Tamiobatis

A picture published with the record for Tamiobatis. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. 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
Sits inside
CtenacanthidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ctenacanthiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ctenacanthiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ctenacanthiformes

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 358.86 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 351.9 Mya.

Devonian — about 2 of 3 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferous389–387 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences384–382 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences372–371 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences371–370 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences370–369 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences369–367 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences367–366 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences366–365 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences365–364 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences364–362 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences362–361 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences361–360 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences359–357 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences355–354 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences354–352 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences382.31 Mya358.86 Mya388.7 Mya351.2 Mya

3 occurrences of Tamiobatis on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

3 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

3 formations

New Albany Shale — 38.48°N, 85.75°WOhio Shale — 41.37°N, 81.62°WRockport Quarry Limestone — 45.20°N, 83.39°W

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The named rock units Tamiobatis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Tamiobatis and its relatives

Devonian

Where Tamiobatis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

23 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Tamiobatis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

3 references

Each of the 3 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 content2

Picture of Tamiobatis

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Tamiobatis vetustus · usnm:paleobiology:1717

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCtenacanthidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Eastman 1897