Alepisauroidei

Alepisauroidei

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AulopiformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Aulopiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Aulopiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Aulopiformes

Time the record covers

At least 158 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 129 ka.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 396 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 396 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 7 of 396 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 339 of 396 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 12 of 396 occurrencesEocene — about 11 of 396 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 396 occurrencesMiocene — about 14 of 396 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 396 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 396 occurrences169–163 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences163–157 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences129–124 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences124–118 Mya — about 1 occurrence118–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 1 occurrence107–101 Mya — about 2 occurrences101–96 Mya — about 58 occurrences96–90 Mya — about 55 occurrences90–84 Mya — about 31 occurrences84–79 Mya — about 47 occurrences79–73 Mya — about 43 occurrences73–67 Mya — about 83 occurrences67–62 Mya — about 26 occurrences62–56 Mya — about 9 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 3 occurrences51–45 Mya — about 3 occurrences45–39 Mya — about 4 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–22 Mya — about 9 occurrences22–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–11 Mya — about 7 occurrences11–5.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.6–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences161.5 Mya2.58 Mya169 Mya0 Mya

396 occurrences of Alepisauroidei on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

396 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

129 formations

Greenhorn Limestone — 37.22°N, 103.60°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.00°N, 98.92°WGreenhorn Limestone — 44.65°N, 103.58°WGreenhorn Limestone — 37.69°N, 103.94°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.81°N, 97.34°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.74°N, 97.65°WGreenhorn Limestone — 42.64°N, 96.53°WGreenhorn Limestone — 40.01°N, 97.17°WGreenhorn Limestone — 37.46°N, 103.05°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.87°N, 98.51°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.94°N, 98.80°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.78°N, 98.96°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.74°N, 99.04°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.92°N, 98.90°WGreenhorn Limestone — 37.65°N, 103.93°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.81°N, 97.38°WFox Hills — 46.05°N, 103.88°WFox Hills — 46.47°N, 99.58°WFox Hills — 46.26°N, 100.55°WFox Hills — 46.28°N, 100.52°WFox Hills — 46.11°N, 103.90°WFox Hills — 46.10°N, 100.42°WFox Hills — 46.30°N, 100.33°WFox Hills — 46.42°N, 100.74°WFox Hills — 46.41°N, 100.86°WFox Hills — 44.52°N, 102.39°WCarlile Shale — 39.89°N, 98.03°WCarlile Shale — 39.08°N, 99.24°WCarlile Shale — 39.78°N, 98.15°WCarlile Shale — 42.74°N, 97.03°WCarlile Shale — 38.72°N, 99.32°WCarlile Shale — 39.04°N, 99.07°WMooreville Chalk — 32.94°N, 88.06°WMooreville Chalk — 32.95°N, 88.08°WMooreville Chalk — 31.91°N, 87.87°WMooreville Chalk — 32.44°N, 87.24°WMooreville Chalk — 32.76°N, 88.02°WNiobrara — 43.41°N, 103.31°WNiobrara — 39.06°N, 99.23°WNiobrara — 38.79°N, 100.76°WNiobrara — 38.80°N, 100.19°WAhlen — 51.83°N, 7.83°EAhlen — 51.86°N, 7.74°EAhlen — 51.80°N, 7.75°ERybushka — 51.24°N, 44.99°ERybushka — 51.35°N, 45.04°ERybushka — 51.23°N, 45.10°ECintalapa — 16.57°N, 93.27°WGraneros Shale — 40.01°N, 97.17°WGraneros Shale — 38.93°N, 98.91°WDinosaur Park — 50.81°N, 111.32°WDinosaur Park — 50.68°N, 108.09°WDinosaur Park — 50.78°N, 111.36°WPierre Shale — 38.90°N, 101.13°WPierre Shale — 43.22°N, 103.45°WPierre Shale — 43.01°N, 103.30°WPierre Shale — 39.01°N, 101.37°WNavesink — 39.76°N, 75.13°WNavesink — 39.95°N, 74.79°WNavesink — 40.38°N, 74.21°WBahariya — 28.37°N, 28.90°EHornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.13°WPierre Shale — 49.33°N, 98.31°WPierre Shale — 51.96°N, 101.25°WMount Laurel — 40.12°N, 74.55°WMount Laurel — 40.26°N, 74.27°WZig Zag Chalk — 51.33°N, 0.49°EZig Zag Chalk — 50.86°N, 0.07°EZig Zag Chalk — 50.90°N, 0.15°WMaastricht — 50.84°N, 5.79°EMaastricht — 50.82°N, 5.68°EMarshalltown — 40.30°N, 74.30°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WAshville — 53.48°N, 102.24°WDemopolis Chalk — 32.27°N, 87.50°WDemopolis Chalk — 32.67°N, 88.11°WDemopolis Chalk — 33.52°N, 88.78°WEutaw — 32.35°N, 86.35°WEutaw — 33.52°N, 88.40°WEutaw — 32.77°N, 87.87°WMishash — 30.67°N, 35.08°EMishash — 30.62°N, 35.12°EJagüel — 39.72°S, 66.67°W

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The named rock units Alepisauroidei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 105 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 103 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Alepisauroidei and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

2,650 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 306 sites for Alepisauroidei, and this reads 240 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

211 references

Each of the 396 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. 199 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 Alepisauroidei

Credit
NOAA
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Alepisauroidei 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 itAulopiformes through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.