Image of sand tigers

Life » … » Animals » … » Vertebrates » … » Cartilaginous Fishes » … » Modern Sharks

Life » Cellular » Eukaryotes » Opisthokonts » Animals » Bilateria » Deuterostomes » Chordates » Vertebrates » Jawed Fish » Cartilaginous Fishes » Elasmobranchii » Modern Sharks «

Mackerel Sharks

Lamniformes

auditory system

Ladich and Popper 2004
otoliths
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q591800

Definition: Inner-ear structure in vertebrates which detects acceleration and may detect acoustic signals

show all records

ecomorphological guild

Paleobiology Database
nectonic
URI: http://www.marinespecies.org/traits/Nekton

Definition: Active swimming organisms that live in the water column and are able to move independently of the water mass (adapted from Lincoln et al., 1998).

Attribution: http://www.marinespecies.org/traits/wiki/Traits:Nekton

show all records

extinction status

Paleobiology Database
extant
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/extant

Definition: This taxon is still in existence, as opposed to extinct.

Attribution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extant_taxon

show all records

first appearance

Paleobiology Database

208.5 million years ago

(max)
Paleobiology Database
rhaetian age
URI: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Rhaetian

Attribution: International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale

show all records

hearing range

Ladich and Popper 2004

300 Hz

(max)
Ladich and Popper 2004

40 Hz

(min)

last appearance

Paleobiology Database
cenozoic era
URI: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Cenozoic

Attribution: International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale

show all records

mineralized skeleton contains

Mineralogy
hydroxylapatite
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_52255

Definition: A phosphate mineral with the formula Ca5(PO4)3(OH).

show all records

mineralized tissue contains

Mineralogy
hydroxylapatite
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_52255

Definition: A phosphate mineral with the formula Ca5(PO4)3(OH).

show all records
Mineralogy
apatite
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_52254

Definition: A phosphate mineral with the general formula Ca5(PO4)3X where X = OH, F or Cl

show all records

motility

Paleobiology Database
actively mobile
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/activelyMobile

Definition: uses self-propelled locomotion to change location on a regular basis

show all records
(adult)

number of fossil occurrences

Paleobiology Database

4277

sensory system

Bullock et al 1983
electroreception
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1326528

Definition: detection and measurement of weak electric fields, via specialized sense organs and brain structures that process this information

show all records

sexual system

Fairbairn 2013
dioecious
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148681

Definition: a characteristic of a species, meaning that it has distinct male and female individual organisms.

show all records

trophic guild

Paleobiology Database
carnivore
URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q81875

Definition: organism that eats mostly or exclusively animal tissue

show all records