Dortoka

No picture of Dortoka was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikidata and 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 Dortoka, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DortokidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
coastal,freshwaterPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 41.03 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 10 of 18 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 7 of 18 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 18 occurrencesEocene84–83 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 3 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 3 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences72.2 Mya56 Mya84.5 Mya40.2 Mya

18 occurrences of Dortoka 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

18 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

7 formations

Jibou — 47.26°N, 23.26°EJibou — 47.22°N, 22.80°EVitoria — 42.66°N, 2.63°WVegas de Matute — 41.08°N, 4.32°WSierra Perenchiza — 39.60°N, 0.97°WSaint-Chinian — 43.36°N, 2.96°ESînpetru — 45.55°N, 22.92°EGrès à Reptiles — 43.35°N, 2.95°E

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The named rock units Dortoka has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dortoka and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

132 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Dortoka, 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

10 references

Each of the 18 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 content0

No picture of Dortoka was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikidata and 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 Dortoka, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Dortoka 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itDortokidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996