Albulidae

Albulidae is a family of fish, commonly known as the bonefishes, that are popular as game fish in Florida, select locations in the South Pacific and the Bahamas and elsewhere. The family is small, with 11 species in 3 genera. Presently, the bonefishes are in their own order: Albuliformes. The families Halosauridae and Notacanthidae were previously classified in this order, but are now, according to FishBase, given their own order Notacanthiformes. The largest bonefish caught in the Western Hemisphere is a 16-pound, 3 ounce example caught off Islamorada, Florida, on March 19, 2007.

Albulidae

Brian Gratwicke · 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
AlbuliformesPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 119 million years on record.

The record covers at least 119.57 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 9 of 274 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 127 of 274 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 15 of 274 occurrencesEocene — about 74 of 274 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 20 of 274 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 21 of 274 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 274 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 274 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 3 occurrences116–111 Mya — about 3 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 2 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 4 occurrences99–95 Mya — about 11 occurrences95–91 Mya — about 7 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 1 occurrence87–83 Mya — about 12 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 26 occurrences78–74 Mya — about 26 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 22 occurrences70–66 Mya — about 19 occurrences66–62 Mya — about 3 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 10 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 10 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 15 occurrences50–45 Mya — about 16 occurrences45–41 Mya — about 15 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 14 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 7 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 6 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 8 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 6 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–12 Mya — about 7 occurrences12–8.3 Mya — about 5 occurrences8.3–4.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.1–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences119.57 Mya11.7 ka124 Mya0 Mya

274 occurrences of Albulidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

274 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

94 formations

Dinosaur Park — 49.12°N, 110.47°WDinosaur Park — 50.74°N, 111.49°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.46°WDinosaur Park — 50.81°N, 111.58°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.40°WDinosaur Park — 50.78°N, 111.33°WOldman — 50.75°N, 111.51°WOldman — 49.10°N, 110.94°WOldman — 49.08°N, 110.84°WOldman — 49.08°N, 110.68°WOldman — 49.16°N, 110.72°WOldman — 50.83°N, 111.32°WHell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WHell Creek — 46.90°N, 101.50°WHell Creek — 45.66°N, 105.08°WHell Creek — 45.50°N, 103.10°WHell Creek — 45.64°N, 103.49°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.40°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 106.92°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 107.18°WHell Creek — 47.27°N, 107.13°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 106.28°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°WAhlen — 51.83°N, 7.83°EGreenhorn Limestone — 37.22°N, 103.60°WGreenhorn Limestone — 37.69°N, 103.94°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.81°N, 97.34°WGreenhorn Limestone — 37.46°N, 103.05°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.04°N, 98.99°WGreenhorn Limestone — 37.65°N, 103.93°WLance — 43.12°N, 104.64°WLance — 43.13°N, 104.49°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.57°WHorseshoe Canyon — 52.00°N, 112.88°WRomualdo — 7.49°S, 39.59°WRomualdo — 7.51°S, 39.55°WRomualdo — 7.47°S, 39.76°WRomualdo — 7.43°S, 39.82°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WForemost — 50.07°N, 111.14°WForemost — 49.13°N, 110.87°WNanjemoy — 38.28°N, 77.37°WNanjemoy — 37.75°N, 77.33°WKhodzhakul — 40.10°N, 65.80°EPorters Creek — 32.02°N, 87.42°WLondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WStone City — 30.67°N, 96.56°WCook Mountain — 31.33°N, 95.52°WCook Mountain — 32.03°N, 88.70°WCook Mountain — 30.61°N, 96.57°WBarton Clay — 51.02°N, 1.32°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WCarlile Shale — 39.89°N, 98.03°WCarlile Shale — 42.74°N, 97.03°WElmore — 50.80°N, 1.21°WTar Heel — 34.57°N, 78.50°WTar Heel — 34.61°N, 78.60°WMooreville Chalk — 33.12°N, 88.26°WMooreville Chalk — 32.94°N, 88.06°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WReklaw — 30.00°N, 97.25°WMoodys Branch — 32.90°N, 90.19°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°W

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The named rock units Albulidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 70 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 59 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Albulidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Albulidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

3,826 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 238 sites for Albulidae, and this reads all 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

132 references

Each of the 274 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. 120 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 Albulidae

Credit
Brian Gratwicke
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Albulidae 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itAlbuliformes through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bleeker 1859