Hiodontidae

Hiodontidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HiodontiformesPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 132 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 36 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 36 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 23 of 36 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 36 occurrencesEocene — about 10 of 36 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 36 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 36 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 36 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 36 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 5 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 3 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 3 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 8 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 4 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence132.6 Mya11.7 ka146 Mya0 Mya

36 occurrences of Hiodontidae 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

36 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

15 formations

Hell Creek — 47.60°N, 106.92°WHell Creek — 47.27°N, 107.13°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.40°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 107.18°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.51°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.40°WDinosaur Park — 50.81°N, 111.63°WDinosaur Park — 50.68°N, 108.09°WMilk River — 49.10°N, 111.80°WGreen River — 41.87°N, 110.68°WGreen River — 41.78°N, 110.73°WKlondike Mountain — 48.70°N, 118.75°WKlondike Mountain — 48.88°N, 118.87°WMengyin — 35.87°N, 117.95°EKishenehn — 48.22°N, 113.58°WSanta Lucía — 18.03°S, 65.58°WTranquille Beds — 50.76°N, 120.67°WClarno — 44.53°N, 120.36°WNaturita — 37.80°N, 111.50°WKaiparowits — 37.42°N, 111.77°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.57°WScollard — 51.91°N, 112.97°WWilliams Fork — 39.93°N, 108.82°W

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The named rock units Hiodontidae 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.

Hiodontidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

558 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Hiodontidae, 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

17 references

Each of the 36 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. 5 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 Hiodontidae

Credit
NOAA
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Hiodontidae 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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What may have been alongside itHiodontiformes through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cuvier and Valenciennes 1846