Texatrygon copei
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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 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Texatrygon copei 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
2 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 copei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Texatrygon copei and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Texatrygon copei and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Cantioscyllium meyeri2 sites
- Chiloscyllium greeni2 sites
- Scapanorhynchus texanus2 sites
- Squalicorax kaupi2 sites
- Albula1 site
- Brachyrhizodus wichitaensis1 site
- Chondrichthyes1 site
- Columbusia1 site
- Cretalamna sarcoportheta1 site
- Enchodus1 site
- Hybodus1 site
- Igdabatis indicus1 site
- Ischyrhiza mira1 site
- Lepidotes1 site
- Lonchidion selachos1 site
- Myliobatiformes1 site
- Osteichthyes1 site
- Paralbula casei1 site
- Protoplatyrhina renae1 site
- Pseudocorax granti1 site
- Ptychotrygon1 site
- Ptychotrygon agujaensis1 site
- Ptychotrygon blainensis1 site
- Ptychotrygon cuspidata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Texatrygon copei, 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
2 references- An Upper Cretaceous (middle Campanian) marine chondrichthyan and osteichthyan fauna from the Rattlesnake Mountain sandstone member of the Aguja Formation in West Texas1
- Additions aux faunes de sélaciens du Crétacé du Texas (Albien supérieur-Campanien)1
Each of the 2 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 copei 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 copei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Texatrygon copei 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. Cappetta and Case 1999