Vectiselachos gosslingi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VectiselachosPBDB
- 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 121.4 Mya and 110.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Vectiselachos gosslingi on record, most of them in the Early 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
5 occurrences- Early 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Vectiselachos gosslingi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Vectiselachos gosslingi and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Vectiselachos gosslingi and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Egertonodus basanus2 sites
- Lonchidion breve2 sites
- Parvodus parvidens2 sites
- Pycnodontiformes2 sites
- Vectiselachos ornatus2 sites
- Aspidorhynchiformes1 site
- Caturus1 site
- Chiloscyllium1 site
- Chiloscyllium greeni1 site
- Cretorectolobus1 site
- Crocodyliformes1 site
- Cylindrobullina1 site
- Eostriatolamia1 site
- Gyrodus1 site
- Hemiscyllium1 site
- Heterodontus1 site
- Heterodontus sulcatus1 site
- Hexanchiformes1 site
- Holocephali1 site
- Hybodus1 site
- Lamnidae1 site
- Lamniformes1 site
- Leptostyrax stychi1 site
- Ocloedus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Vectiselachos gosslingi, 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- A new species of Vectiselachos (Chondrichthyes, Selachii) from the Early Cretaceous of southern England4
- Microvertebrates from the Lower Greensand Group (Lower Cretaceous) of Clophill, Bedfordshire, UK, and Nutfield, Surrey, UK1
Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Vectiselachos gosslingi 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 Vectiselachos gosslingi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Vectiselachos gosslingi 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 itVectiselachos through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Batchelor 2013