Albuliformes

Albuliformes

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
bonefishPBDB
Sits inside
ElopomorphaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 132 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 11 of 286 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 129 of 286 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 17 of 286 occurrencesEocene — about 80 of 286 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 20 of 286 occurrencesMiocene — about 21 of 286 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 286 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 286 occurrences140–135 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences135–130 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences130–126 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences126–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–116 Mya — about 3 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 3 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 2 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 7 occurrences98–93 Mya — about 11 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 4 occurrences89–84 Mya — about 5 occurrences84–79 Mya — about 29 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 30 occurrences75–70 Mya — about 26 occurrences70–65 Mya — about 18 occurrences65–61 Mya — about 6 occurrences61–56 Mya — about 11 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 16 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 19 occurrences47–42 Mya — about 19 occurrences42–37 Mya — about 19 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 8 occurrences33–28 Mya — about 7 occurrences28–23 Mya — about 10 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 5 occurrences19–14 Mya — about 7 occurrences14–9.3 Mya — about 7 occurrences9.3–4.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.7–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences132.6 Mya11.7 ka140 Mya0 Mya

286 occurrences of Albuliformes 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

286 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

97 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°WCook Mountain — 30.64°N, 96.51°WCook Mountain — 31.33°N, 95.52°WCook Mountain — 32.03°N, 88.70°WCook Mountain — 30.61°N, 96.57°WLance — 43.12°N, 104.64°WLance — 43.13°N, 104.49°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.57°WStone City — 30.63°N, 96.54°WStone City — 30.67°N, 96.56°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°WLisbon — 31.56°N, 87.52°WLisbon — 31.75°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.36°N, 86.52°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°WLellinge Greensand — 55.63°N, 12.62°ELellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°ELondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°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°W

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The named rock units Albuliformes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 73 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 61 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Albuliformes and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

3,931 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 248 sites for Albuliformes, 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

137 references

Each of the 286 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. 125 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 Albuliformes

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Albuliformes 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 itElopomorpha through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Greenwood et al. 1966