Neoceratodus forsteri

The Australian lungfish, also known as the Queensland lungfish, Burnett salmon and barramunda, is the only surviving member of the family Neoceratodontidae. It is one of only six extant lungfish species in the world. Endemic to Australia, the Neoceratodontidae are an ancient family belonging to the class Sarcopterygii, or lobe-finned fishes.

Neoceratodus forsteri

Mitch Ames · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
NeoceratodusPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
lagoonal,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Dipnoi

Time the record covers

At least 66 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 4 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 4 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 1 occurrence97–94 Mya — about 1 occurrence94–91 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences30–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93.9 Mya27.3 Mya102 Mya21 Mya

4 occurrences of Neoceratodus forsteri on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

4 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

2 formations

Griman Creek — 29.46°S, 147.96°EGriman Creek — 29.45°S, 147.76°ENamba — 31.17°S, 140.23°E

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The named rock units Neoceratodus forsteri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Neoceratodus forsteri and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Neoceratodus forsteri and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

77 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Neoceratodus forsteri, 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

2 references

Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Neoceratodus forsteri

Credit
Mitch Ames
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Synchrotron Imaging scan

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not stated by the source
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Specimen
Neoceratodus forsteri · nmns:IMU-RU-SI-0039

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

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 itNeoceratodus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Krefft 1870)