Acanthopterygii

Acanthopterygii is a superorder of bony fishes in the class Actinopterygii. Members of this superorder are sometimes called ray-finned fishes for the characteristic sharp, bony rays in their fins; however, this name is often given to the class Actinopterygii as a whole.

Acanthopterygii

Rickard Zerpe · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
TeleosteomorphaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 154 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 157.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 2 of 7733 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 13 of 7733 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 256 of 7733 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 107 of 7733 occurrencesEocene — about 1979 of 7733 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 763 of 7733 occurrencesMiocene — about 2858 of 7733 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 646 of 7733 occurrencesPleistocene — about 865 of 7733 occurrences161–156 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences156–150 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences150–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145–140 Mya — about 3 occurrences140–134 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences134–129 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences129–123 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences123–118 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences118–113 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences113–107 Mya — about 2 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 5 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 37 occurrences97–91 Mya — about 34 occurrences91–86 Mya — about 10 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 37 occurrences81–75 Mya — about 25 occurrences75–70 Mya — about 53 occurrences70–64 Mya — about 74 occurrences64–59 Mya — about 67 occurrences59–54 Mya — about 213 occurrences54–48 Mya — about 467 occurrences48–43 Mya — about 530 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 579 occurrences38–32 Mya — about 321 occurrences32–27 Mya — about 346 occurrences27–21 Mya — about 446 occurrences21–16 Mya — about 772 occurrences16–11 Mya — about 874 occurrences11–5.4 Mya — about 1068 occurrences5.4–0 Mya — about 1766 occurrences154.8 Mya11.7 ka161 Mya0 Mya

7,733 occurrences of Acanthopterygii on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

7,733 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

533 formations

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.76°N, 118.29°WPalos Verdes Sand — 34.00°N, 118.20°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.90°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.75°N, 118.29°WLondon Clay — 50.83°N, 0.78°WLondon Clay — 51.85°N, 1.27°ELondon Clay — 51.51°N, 0.24°ELondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELondon Clay — 51.37°N, 1.08°ELondon Clay — 51.54°N, 0.16°WLondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 51.48°N, 0.25°ESelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WMount Harris — 44.20°S, 170.71°EMount Harris — 44.48°S, 170.90°EMount Harris — 45.21°S, 170.88°EMount Harris — 45.14°S, 170.94°EMount Harris — 45.13°S, 170.96°EMount Harris — 44.30°S, 170.99°EMount Harris — 44.41°S, 171.06°EMount Harris — 44.49°S, 171.01°EMount Harris — 44.82°S, 170.88°EMount Harris — 45.03°S, 171.02°EMount Harris — 44.83°S, 170.97°EHrušky — 48.81°N, 16.63°EGatun — 9.35°N, 79.80°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.84°WGatun — 9.33°N, 79.89°WMiretrain Marl — 43.56°N, 1.11°WRaz-el-Ain — 35.71°N, 0.64°WMonterey — 33.60°N, 117.70°WMonterey — 33.71°N, 118.31°WMonterey — 34.58°N, 120.34°WMonterey — 34.61°N, 120.44°WMonterey — 34.11°N, 118.42°WMonterey — 34.08°N, 118.17°WMonterey — 34.85°N, 120.42°WMonterey — 33.79°N, 117.81°WMonterey — 34.49°N, 120.23°WCook Mountain — 30.64°N, 96.51°WCook Mountain — 32.34°N, 89.14°WCook Mountain — 30.03°N, 97.07°WCook Mountain — 30.61°N, 96.57°WCook Mountain — 31.33°N, 95.52°WCook Mountain — 32.03°N, 88.70°WLagos-Portimão — 37.08°N, 8.28°WLagos-Portimão — 37.12°N, 8.54°WLagos-Portimão — 37.08°N, 8.67°WLindos Bay — 36.09°N, 28.01°ELindos Bay — 36.26°N, 28.17°ELindos Bay — 36.36°N, 28.21°EStone City — 30.53°N, 96.69°WStone City — 30.63°N, 96.54°WStone City — 30.67°N, 96.56°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WSouthburn Sand — 44.30°S, 171.00°ESouthburn Sand — 44.42°S, 170.89°EWaihao Greensand — 44.80°S, 170.98°EWaihao Greensand — 44.40°S, 171.04°EYazoo — 31.66°N, 92.90°WYazoo — 31.82°N, 92.33°WYazoo — 31.93°N, 88.46°WYazoo — 32.07°N, 88.96°WYazoo — 31.93°N, 91.94°WYazoo — 31.71°N, 87.96°WYazoo — 31.63°N, 88.31°WYazoo — 31.69°N, 88.30°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WElmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WTallahatta — 31.20°N, 85.48°WTallahatta — 31.38°N, 86.67°WTallahatta — 31.31°N, 88.73°WTallahatta — 31.57°N, 88.34°WTallahatta — 31.79°N, 88.32°WTallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°WTallahatta — 31.32°N, 85.72°WWeches — 30.00°N, 97.15°WWeches — 28.96°N, 98.48°WWeches — 31.51°N, 94.35°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.04°WNavidad — 33.91°S, 71.84°WNavidad — 33.95°S, 71.87°WCalvert — 38.54°N, 76.73°WCalvert — 37.93°N, 77.51°WCalvert — 38.60°N, 76.51°WCalvert — 38.18°N, 76.97°WCalvert — 37.22°N, 76.96°WCalvert — 37.54°N, 77.44°WCalvert — 37.77°N, 77.37°WCalvert — 38.17°N, 76.81°WCalvert — 39.27°N, 77.53°WRifle Butts Siltstone — 45.14°S, 170.93°E

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The named rock units Acanthopterygii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 509 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 3,436 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acanthopterygii and its relatives

Miocene

Where Acanthopterygii and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,404 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 636 sites for Acanthopterygii, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

958 references

Each of the 7,733 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. 946 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Acanthopterygii

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Rickard Zerpe
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No 3D scan of Acanthopterygii 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.

The description on this site

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

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