Chasmistes

Chasmistes is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Catostomidae.

Chasmistes

Rollie White · Public Domain · 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
CatostomidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Cypriniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Cypriniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cypriniformes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Cypriniformes

Time the record covers

At most 4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 1.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 0 of 9 occurrencesPliocene — about 8 of 9 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 9 occurrencesPleistocene5.3–5.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.2–5.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.0–4.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.8–4.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.5–4.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.4–4.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.2–4.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.0–3.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.5–3.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.4–3.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.2–3.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.0–2.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.5–2.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.4–2.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.9–1.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.83 Mya900 ka

9 occurrences of Chasmistes on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

9 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

1 formation

Alturas — 41.49°N, 120.65°WAlturas — 40.16°N, 120.27°W

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The named rock units Chasmistes 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.

Chasmistes and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Chasmistes and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

72 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Chasmistes, 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

4 references

Each of the 9 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Chasmistes

Credit
Rollie White
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itCatostomidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jordan 1878