Ictalurus

Ictalurus is a genus of North American freshwater catfishes. It includes the well-known channel catfish and blue catfish.

Ictalurus

Duane Raver · 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
IctaluridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Siluriformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Siluriformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Siluriformes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Siluriformes

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.1 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 24.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 39 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 20 of 39 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 39 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 12 of 39 occurrencesPleistocene25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.2–8.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.4–7.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.6–6.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.0–4.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.2–3.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.4–2.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.5–1.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.7–840 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences840 ka–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences23.1 Mya11.7 ka25.2 Mya0 Mya

39 occurrences of Ictalurus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

39 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

12 formations

Valentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WValentine — 42.79°N, 100.07°WValentine — 42.49°N, 98.11°WOgallala — 39.08°N, 99.75°WKingsdown — 37.04°N, 100.50°WGoliad — 28.60°N, 97.70°WGoliad — 28.34°N, 97.96°WFleming — 31.00°N, 93.40°WTamiami — 27.78°N, 82.68°WVerde — 34.77°N, 112.05°WAlachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WCrooked Creek — 37.20°N, 100.30°WTurtle Butte — 43.07°N, 99.83°WShuler — 32.71°N, 96.71°WSt. Marys — 38.32°N, 76.43°W

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The named rock units Ictalurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ictalurus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Ictalurus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

795 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Ictalurus, 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

30 references

Each of the 39 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. 18 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 content2

Picture of Ictalurus

Credit
Duane Raver
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
Ictalurus punctatus · TCWC:Ichthyology:16900.18

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 itIctaluridae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rafinesque 1820