Erythrinidae

The Erythrinidae are a family of fishes found in rivers and other freshwater habitats from Costa Rica south as far as Argentina. They are common and are caught with hooks by fishermen, partially because of their voracious behaviour. They are sometimes called trahiras or tarariras.

Erythrinidae

Cláudio D. Timm · CC BY 2.0 · 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
CharacoideiPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Characiformes

Time the record covers

At least 58 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.5–1.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences61.66 Mya3.6 Mya67 Mya1 Mya

5 occurrences of Erythrinidae on record, most of them in the Paleocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

5 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

5 formations

Santa Lucía — 18.03°S, 65.58°WCayara — 19.05°S, 66.53°WChambira — 7.32°S, 74.93°WSan Gregorio — 11.30°N, 70.24°WPebas — 3.74°S, 73.25°W

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

Erythrinidae and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Erythrinidae and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

146 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Erythrinidae, 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

5 references

Each of the 5 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 Erythrinidae

Credit
Cláudio D. Timm
Licence
CC BY 2.0
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 itCharacoidei through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.