Bananogmius

Bananogmius is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish that was found in what is now North America and Europe during the Late Cretaceous, from the Cenomanian to the Santonian. It lived in the Western Interior Seaway, which split North America in two during the Late Cretaceous, as well as the proto-North Sea of Europe.

Bananogmius

The sesame tree · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
PlethodidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Tselfatiiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Tselfatiiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Tselfatiiformes

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 10 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 10 of 10 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesPaleocene101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93.9 Mya72.2 Mya101.3 Mya60.9 Mya

10 occurrences of Bananogmius on record, most of them in the Late 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

10 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

8 formations

Niobrara — 38.72°N, 100.70°WNiobrara — 43.41°N, 103.31°WHornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.13°WPierre Shale — 49.22°N, 98.20°WPierre Shale — 44.00°N, 103.25°WMooreville Chalk — 32.96°N, 88.13°WCarlile Shale — 39.13°N, 99.32°WZig Zag Chalk — 53.68°N, 0.50°WCarlile — 52.32°N, 101.24°W

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The named rock units Bananogmius 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.

Bananogmius and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

151 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Bananogmius, 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

8 references

Each of the 10 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. 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 Bananogmius

Credit
The sesame tree
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Bananogmius 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 itPlethodidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Whitley 1940