Chimaeroidei

Chimaeroidei

Linda Snook / MBNMS · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
ChimaeriformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Chimaeriformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Chimaeriformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Chimaeriformes

Time the record covers

At least 306 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 315.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 144 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 144 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 144 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 144 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 144 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 3 of 144 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 6 of 144 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 144 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 144 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 62 of 144 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 16 of 144 occurrencesEocene — about 20 of 144 occurrencesOligocene — about 7 of 144 occurrencesMiocene — about 11 of 144 occurrencesPliocene — about 4 of 144 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 144 occurrences322–311 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences311–300 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences214–204 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences204–193 Mya — about 2 occurrences193–182 Mya — about 2 occurrences171–161 Mya — about 6 occurrences161–150 Mya — about 1 occurrence150–139 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences129–118 Mya — about 1 occurrence118–107 Mya — about 2 occurrences107–96 Mya — about 9 occurrences96–86 Mya — about 8 occurrences86–75 Mya — about 25 occurrences75–64 Mya — about 26 occurrences64–54 Mya — about 14 occurrences54–43 Mya — about 11 occurrences43–32 Mya — about 9 occurrences32–21 Mya — about 6 occurrences21–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences11–0 Mya — about 16 occurrences307 Mya11.7 ka322 Mya0 Mya

144 occurrences of Chimaeroidei on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

144 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

54 formations

Hornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.13°WHornerstown — 40.10°N, 73.00°WHornerstown — 40.12°N, 74.55°WHornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.16°WHornerstown — 39.97°N, 74.71°WMasuk — 38.07°N, 110.93°WMasuk — 38.06°N, 110.97°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WBlack Rock Sandstone — 37.99°S, 145.04°EBlack Rock Sandstone — 37.98°S, 145.05°ERybushka — 51.24°N, 44.99°ERybushka — 51.35°N, 45.04°ERybushka — 51.23°N, 45.10°EHorcón — 32.70°S, 71.46°WMelovatka — 50.88°N, 44.74°ELa Meseta — 64.26°S, 56.68°WLa Meseta — 64.22°S, 56.64°WLa Meseta — 64.25°S, 56.68°WSables de Bracheux — 49.58°N, 2.65°ESables de Bracheux — 49.53°N, 2.75°EAshville — 53.48°N, 102.24°WElmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WMooreville Chalk — 32.96°N, 88.13°WMooreville Chalk — 32.84°N, 87.89°WWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 50.90°N, 0.01°EWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 52.04°N, 0.15°WLondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°EClayton — 33.50°N, 88.79°WClayton — 34.49°N, 89.00°WNavidad — 33.91°S, 71.85°WVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WSan Mateo — 33.20°N, 117.37°WGrange Burn — 37.73°S, 141.94°EClinchfield — 32.91°N, 83.36°WPapo Seco — 38.42°N, 9.21°WShark River — 40.20°N, 74.17°WRupel — 51.22°N, 12.33°E

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The named rock units Chimaeroidei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 35 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chimaeroidei and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,948 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 118 sites for Chimaeroidei, 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

85 references

Each of the 144 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. 73 further references are not listed. 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 Chimaeroidei

Credit
Linda Snook / MBNMS
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Chimaeroidei 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.