Ichthyodectoidei

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
IchthyodectiformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ichthyodectiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ichthyodectiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ichthyodectiformes

Time the record covers

At least 104 million years on record.

The record covers at least 145.06 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 152 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 7 of 152 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 142 of 152 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 152 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 152 occurrencesEocene151–148 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences148–144 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences144–140 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences140–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–128 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences121–117 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences117–113 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences113–109 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences109–105 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 1 occurrence101–97 Mya — about 16 occurrences97–93 Mya — about 19 occurrences93–90 Mya — about 22 occurrences90–86 Mya — about 9 occurrences86–82 Mya — about 28 occurrences82–78 Mya — about 16 occurrences78–74 Mya — about 16 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 11 occurrences70–66 Mya — about 5 occurrences66–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–35 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences145.06 Mya41.03 Mya151 Mya35 Mya

152 occurrences of Ichthyodectoidei 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

152 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

54 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 — 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°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°WTar Heel — 34.57°N, 78.50°WTar Heel — 34.61°N, 78.60°WKaskapau — 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°WMuwaddar Chalk Marl — 31.56°N, 36.51°EStarigrad Limestone — 43.19°N, 16.65°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°WEagle Ford — 31.53°N, 97.21°WBissekty — 42.12°N, 62.66°EEutaw — 33.52°N, 88.40°WEutaw — 32.77°N, 87.87°WScaglia Variegata Alpina — 45.28°N, 11.65°ETropic Shale — 37.08°N, 111.66°WTropic Shale — 37.07°N, 111.54°WShaftesbury — 52.00°N, 118.00°W

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The named rock units Ichthyodectoidei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ichthyodectoidei and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,385 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 118 sites for Ichthyodectoidei, 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

93 references

Each of the 152 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. 81 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 content0

No picture of Ichthyodectoidei was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Ichthyodectoidei itself, so it was not used.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ichthyodectoidei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Romer 1966