Fundulus

Fundulus is a genus of ray-finned fishes in the superfamily Funduloidea, family Fundulidae. It belongs to the order of toothcarps (Cyprinodontiformes), and therein the large suborder Cyprinodontoidei. Most of its closest living relatives are egg-laying, with the notable exception of the splitfin livebearers (Goodeidae).

Fundulus

Noel Burkhead , USGS · 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
FundulidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Cyprinodontiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Cyprinodontiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cyprinodontiformes

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 11 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 11 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 11 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 11 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 11 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences33.9 Mya129 ka67 Mya0 Mya

11 occurrences of Fundulus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

11 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

4 formations

Bermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WOgallala — 39.08°N, 99.75°WOgallala — 38.90°N, 101.70°WFort Thompson — 27.80°N, 82.80°WTitus Canyon — 36.66°N, 116.84°W

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The named rock units Fundulus 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.

Fundulus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Fundulus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

358 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Fundulus, 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

6 references

Each of the 11 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 content3

Picture of Fundulus

Credit
Noel Burkhead , USGS
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Fundulus capensis · MCZ:Ich:6454

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lacépède 1803