Osmeroides

Osmeroides is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish from the Cretaceous.

Osmeroides

Ghedo · 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
OsmeroididaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Elopiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Elopiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Elopiformes

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 33 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 22 of 33 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 33 occurrencesEocene — about 9 of 33 occurrencesEocene115–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–110 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 1 occurrence99–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–94 Mya — about 1 occurrence94–92 Mya — about 4 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 4 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 5 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences81–78 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 3 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence100.5 Mya56 Mya115 Mya47 Mya

33 occurrences of Osmeroides 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

33 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

10 formations

London Clay — 51.51°N, 0.24°ELondon Clay — 51.54°N, 0.16°WLondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°EArgile des Flandres — 50.61°N, 3.84°EArgile des Flandres — 50.62°N, 3.46°EArgile des Flandres — 50.71°N, 3.84°EHolleywell, New Pit, Lewes — 51.30°N, 0.39°EAhlen — 51.83°N, 7.83°EShaftesbury — 52.00°N, 118.00°WBilá — 49.98°N, 15.60°EKaskapau — 55.71°N, 117.60°WPattenau — 47.83°N, 12.69°EGault — 51.08°N, 1.18°EJizera — 49.96°N, 16.06°E

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The named rock units Osmeroides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Osmeroides and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

588 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Osmeroides, 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

19 references

Each of the 33 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. 7 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 Osmeroides

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

No 3D scan of Osmeroides 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.

The description on this site

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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 itOsmeroididae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1835