Ichthyodectiformes

Ichthyodectiformes is an extinct order of marine stem-teleost ray-finned fish. The order is named after the genus Ichthyodectes, established by Edward Drinker Cope in 1870. Ichthyodectiforms are usually considered to be some of the closest relatives of the teleost crown group.

Ichthyodectiformes

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TeleosteiPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
nektonicPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 108 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 152.21 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 19 of 213 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 26 of 213 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 166 of 213 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 213 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 213 occurrencesEocene155–151 Mya — about 5 occurrences151–147 Mya — about 10 occurrences147–143 Mya — about 5 occurrences143–139 Mya — about 2 occurrences139–135 Mya — about 1 occurrence135–131 Mya — about 1 occurrence131–127 Mya — about 1 occurrence127–123 Mya — about 2 occurrences123–119 Mya — about 3 occurrences119–115 Mya — about 5 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 4 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 2 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 13 occurrences99–95 Mya — about 29 occurrences95–91 Mya — about 28 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 15 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 26 occurrences83–79 Mya — about 17 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 17 occurrences75–71 Mya — about 14 occurrences71–67 Mya — about 6 occurrences67–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–59 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–35 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences149.2 Mya41.03 Mya155 Mya35 Mya

213 occurrences of Ichthyodectiformes 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

213 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

76 formations

Niobrara — 38.91°N, 101.24°WNiobrara — 38.72°N, 100.70°WNiobrara — 39.09°N, 99.85°WNiobrara — 38.84°N, 104.88°WNiobrara — 38.79°N, 100.70°WNiobrara — 43.41°N, 103.31°WNiobrara — 38.79°N, 100.76°WNiobrara — 38.80°N, 100.19°WMooreville Chalk — 32.94°N, 88.06°WMooreville Chalk — 32.95°N, 88.08°WMooreville Chalk — 32.60°N, 87.68°WMooreville Chalk — 32.76°N, 88.02°WMooreville Chalk — 31.91°N, 87.87°WMooreville Chalk — 32.87°N, 88.04°WGreenhorn Limestone — 37.22°N, 103.60°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.00°N, 98.92°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.81°N, 97.34°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.74°N, 97.65°WGreenhorn Limestone — 42.64°N, 96.53°WGreenhorn Limestone — 40.01°N, 97.17°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.87°N, 98.51°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.94°N, 98.80°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.04°N, 98.99°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.78°N, 98.96°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.74°N, 99.04°WSolnhofen — 48.90°N, 11.18°ESolnhofen — 48.94°N, 8.41°ERomualdo — 7.22°S, 39.27°WRomualdo — 7.52°S, 39.57°WRomualdo — 7.51°S, 39.55°WRomualdo — 7.47°S, 39.76°WRomualdo — 7.43°S, 39.82°WCarlile Shale — 39.89°N, 98.03°WCarlile Shale — 39.08°N, 99.24°WCarlile Shale — 39.78°N, 98.15°WCarlile Shale — 38.72°N, 99.32°WCarlile Shale — 39.08°N, 99.03°WStarigrad Limestone — 43.19°N, 16.65°ETar Heel — 34.57°N, 78.50°WTar Heel — 34.61°N, 78.60°WBissekty — 42.12°N, 62.66°EBissekty — 40.70°N, 72.60°EKhodzhakul — 40.10°N, 65.80°EKaskapau — 55.71°N, 117.60°WHolleywell, New Pit, Lewes — 51.30°N, 0.39°ECarlile — 51.99°N, 100.65°WCarlile — 49.05°N, 98.00°WMesaverde — 44.10°N, 107.76°WPierre Shale — 43.31°N, 104.22°WLiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°EMuwaddar Chalk Marl — 31.56°N, 36.51°EGrünsandstein — 48.93°N, 11.83°EMarshalltown — 40.30°N, 74.30°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WNavesink — 39.76°N, 75.13°WNavesink — 40.38°N, 74.21°WPierre Shale — 49.33°N, 98.31°WPierre Shale — 50.99°N, 100.19°WDonoho Creek — 34.06°N, 79.53°WBelle Fourche — 53.21°N, 103.52°WAshville — 53.48°N, 102.24°W

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The named rock units Ichthyodectiformes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 52 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 39 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ichthyodectiformes and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,900 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 160 sites for Ichthyodectiformes, 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

125 references

Each of the 213 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. 113 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 Ichthyodectiformes

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Creator: Dmitry Bogdanov
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CC BY 3.0
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No 3D scan of Ichthyodectiformes 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

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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. Bardack and Sprinkle 1969