Texatrygon benningensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TexatrygonPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 2.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 83.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Texatrygon benningensis 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
4 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
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The named rock units Texatrygon benningensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Texatrygon benningensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Texatrygon benningensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
60 taxa- Cantioscyllium grandis3 sites
- Columbusia fragilis3 sites
- Ischyrhiza mira3 sites
- Pseudohypolophus ellipsis3 sites
- Ptychodus mortoni3 sites
- Scapanorhynchus texanus3 sites
- Squalicorax yangaensis3 sites
- Asflapristis rugosa2 sites
- Borodinopristis ackermani2 sites
- Chiloscyllium2 sites
- Cretalamna appendiculata2 sites
- Cretoxyrhina mantelli2 sites
- Protolamna borodini2 sites
- Protoplatyrhina renae2 sites
- Ptychotrygon chattahoocheensis2 sites
- Ptychotrygon eutawensis2 sites
- Scapanorhynchus tenuis2 sites
- Squalicorax kaupi2 sites
- Amiiformes1 site
- Baenidae1 site
- Cantioscyllium1 site
- Carcharias1 site
- Cederstroemia1 site
- Cederstroemia ziaensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Texatrygon benningensis, 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
3 references- Selachians from the Upper Cretaceous (Santonian) Hosta Tongue of the Point Lookout Sandstone, central New Mexico2
- Late Cretaceous Elasmobranchs from the Eutaw Formation at Luxapalila Creek, Lowndes County, Mississippi1
- A new selachian fauna from the Eutaw Formation (Upper Cretaceous/Early to Middle Santonian) of Chattahoochee County, Georgia1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Texatrygon benningensis 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 Texatrygon benningensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Texatrygon benningensis 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 itTexatrygon through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Case et al. 2001)