Callorhinchidae

Callorhinchidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
plownose chimaeraPBDB
Sits inside
ChimaeroideiPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Chimaeriformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Chimaeriformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Chimaeriformes

Time the record covers

At least 184 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 22 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 6 of 22 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 22 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 22 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 22 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 22 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 22 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 22 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 22 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 22 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 22 occurrences197–190 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences190–184 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences177–171 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences171–164 Mya — about 6 occurrences105–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences98–92 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences92–85 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences85–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–72 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences72–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–59 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences59–52 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences52–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–20 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences20–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.6–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences184.2 Mya11.7 ka197 Mya0 Mya

22 occurrences of Callorhinchidae on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

22 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

9 formations

Horcón — 32.70°S, 71.46°WLa Meseta — 64.26°S, 56.68°WLa Meseta — 64.22°S, 56.64°WNavidad — 33.91°S, 71.85°WAmaltheus Shale — 49.78°N, 11.05°EMarnes sableuses d'Audun-le-Tiche — 49.45°N, 6.00°EClayton — 33.50°N, 88.79°WLoreto — 53.14°S, 71.06°WMata Amarilla — 49.58°S, 69.57°WLas Escobas — 35.28°S, 57.22°W

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The named rock units Callorhinchidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Callorhinchidae and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Callorhinchidae and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

130 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Callorhinchidae, 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

12 references

Each of the 22 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 Callorhinchidae

Credit
fir0002 flagstaffotos [at] gmail.com Canon 20D + Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8
Licence
GFDL 1.2
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Callorhinchidae 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 itChimaeroidei through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Garman 1901