Calamopleurus africanus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CalamopleurusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, piscivorePBDB, for Amiiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Amiiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Amiiformes
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 106.3 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Calamopleurus africanus 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Calamopleurus africanus 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.
Calamopleurus africanus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Calamopleurus africanus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Obaichthys africanus3 sites
- Coelurosauria2 sites
- Neoceratodus africanus2 sites
- Onchopristis numidus2 sites
- Spinosaurus aegyptiacus2 sites
- Adrianaichthys sp.1 site
- Araripemydidae1 site
- Arganodus tiguidiensis1 site
- Bawitius1 site
- Carcharodontosaurus1 site
- Ceratodus protopteroides1 site
- cf. Lavocatodus humei1 site
- Crocodylia1 site
- Dentilepisosteus kemkemensis1 site
- Distobatidae1 site
- Distobatus nutiae1 site
- Elosuchus broinae1 site
- Ginglymodi1 site
- Hamadasuchus rebouli1 site
- Hybodontidae1 site
- Hybodus1 site
- Laganosuchus maghrebensis1 site
- Lepidotes pankowskii1 site
- Mawsoniidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Calamopleurus africanus, 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
3 references- The “mid”-Cretaceous (Lower Cenomanian) continental vertebrates of Gara Samani, Algeria. Sedimentological framework and palaeodiversity1
- Overabundance of piscivorous dinosaurs (Theropoda: Spinosauridae) in the mid-Cretaceous of North Africa: the Algerian dilemma1
- An African twin to the Brazilian Calamopleurus (Actinopterygii: Amiidae)1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Calamopleurus africanus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Calamopleurus africanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Calamopleurus africanus 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 itCalamopleurus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Forey and Grande 1998