Ctenothrissa

Searched as Ctenothrissa typus. The Paleobiology Database treats Ctenothrissa as the accepted name.

Ctenothrissa is a prehistoric genus of marine ray-finned fish in the order Ctenothrissiformes. It contains a number of species known from the Late Cretaceous of England and Lebanon.

Ctenothrissa

Hectonichus · 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
CtenothrissidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ctenothrissiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ctenothrissiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ctenothrissiformes

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 89.8 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 1 occurrenceLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceLate Cretaceous101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences98–98 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences95–95 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences101 Mya89.3 Mya

1 occurrence of Ctenothrissa 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

1 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

Holleywell, New Pit, Lewes — 51.30°N, 0.39°E

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The named rock units Ctenothrissa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Ctenothrissa and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

152 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Ctenothrissa, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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

Media content1

Picture of Ctenothrissa

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ctenothrissa was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itCtenothrissidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Woodward 1899