Araripichthys

Araripichthys is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish that lived from the Aptian to Coniacian stages of the Cretaceous period. The genus is named after the Araripe Basin, where it was found in the Crato and Santana Formations. Other fossils of the genus have been found at Goulmima in Morocco, the Tlayua Formation of Mexico and the Apón Formation of Venezuela.

Araripichthys

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
AraripichthyidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 3 of 5 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 5 occurrencesLate Cretaceous122–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113.2 Mya93.9 Mya122 Mya89.2 Mya

5 occurrences of Araripichthys on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

5 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

4 formations

Apón — 10.48°N, 72.42°WApon — 10.25°N, 72.30°WTlayúa — 18.59°N, 97.90°WAgua Nueva — 26.75°N, 100.05°W

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The named rock units Araripichthys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Araripichthys and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Araripichthys and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

47 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Araripichthys, and this reads all 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

5 references

Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Araripichthys

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Araripichthys 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

Licence
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 itAraripichthyidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Silva Santos 1985