Ostariophysi

Ostariophysi is the second-largest superorder of fish. Members of this superorder are called ostariophysians. This diverse group contains 10,758 species, about 28% of known fish species in the world and 68% of freshwater species, and are present on all continents except Antarctica. They have a number of common characteristics such as an alarm substance and a Weberian apparatus. Members of this group include fish important to people for food, sport, the aquarium industry, and research.

Ostariophysi

Bryan Harry (U.S. National Park Service) · 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
OtomorphaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 145 million years on record.

The record covers at least 145.06 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 5 of 1588 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 26 of 1588 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 100 of 1588 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 36 of 1588 occurrencesEocene — about 191 of 1588 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 107 of 1588 occurrencesMiocene — about 494 of 1588 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 248 of 1588 occurrencesPleistocene — about 336 of 1588 occurrences152–147 Mya — about 1 occurrence147–142 Mya — about 5 occurrences142–137 Mya — about 1 occurrence137–132 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences132–127 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 2 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 6 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 7 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 4 occurrences107–101 Mya — about 5 occurrences101–96 Mya — about 6 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 5 occurrences91–86 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 11 occurrences81–76 Mya — about 7 occurrences76–71 Mya — about 18 occurrences71–66 Mya — about 52 occurrences66–61 Mya — about 22 occurrences61–56 Mya — about 14 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 23 occurrences51–46 Mya — about 37 occurrences46–41 Mya — about 55 occurrences41–36 Mya — about 61 occurrences36–30 Mya — about 43 occurrences30–25 Mya — about 49 occurrences25–20 Mya — about 59 occurrences20–15 Mya — about 99 occurrences15–10 Mya — about 196 occurrences10–5.1 Mya — about 189 occurrences5.1–0 Mya — about 609 occurrences145.06 Mya11.7 ka152 Mya0 Mya

1,588 occurrences of Ostariophysi 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

1,588 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

268 formations

Koobi Fora — 3.90°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.98°N, 36.32°EKoobi Fora — 4.07°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 4.22°N, 36.43°EKoobi Fora — 3.95°N, 36.42°EKoobi Fora — 3.87°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 3.89°N, 36.29°EKoobi Fora — 3.75°N, 36.36°EKoobi Fora — 3.73°N, 36.43°EKoobi Fora — 3.70°N, 36.32°EKoobi Fora — 4.31°N, 36.22°EKoobi Fora — 4.06°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 3.57°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 3.59°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 4.26°N, 36.28°EKoobi Fora — 4.24°N, 36.26°EKoobi Fora — 3.78°N, 36.33°ENkondo — 1.50°N, 31.00°EPozo — 7.33°S, 74.95°WPozo — 7.33°S, 74.95°WPozo — 6.57°S, 76.27°WPebas — 7.36°S, 74.96°WPebas — 3.74°S, 73.25°WNachukui — 4.25°N, 35.79°ENachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EWarwire — 1.50°N, 31.00°EVillavieja — 3.25°N, 75.18°WVillavieja — 3.23°N, 75.14°WBeglia — 34.00°N, 8.00°ENyaburogo — 1.00°N, 30.50°EHell Creek — 47.57°N, 107.10°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 106.92°WHell Creek — 47.27°N, 107.13°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.40°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 107.00°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 107.18°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 106.28°WChambira — 7.32°S, 74.93°WChambira — 7.35°S, 74.96°WOlduvai — 2.97°S, 35.32°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 34.32°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 35.37°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 47.92°N, 10.59°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.44°N, 11.04°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.66°N, 10.23°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.63°N, 11.80°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.09°N, 10.03°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.16°N, 10.11°EUrumaco — 11.25°N, 70.28°WUrumaco — 11.25°N, 70.22°WUrumaco — 11.22°N, 70.24°WWembere-Manonga — 3.88°S, 33.72°EWembere-Manonga — 3.90°S, 33.82°EWembere-Manonga — 3.92°S, 33.88°EWembere-Manonga — 4.03°S, 33.78°EWembere-Manonga — 3.88°S, 33.97°EWembere-Manonga — 3.98°S, 33.93°EAmeki — 5.00°N, 7.50°EAmeki — 5.56°N, 7.52°EFox Hills — 46.47°N, 99.58°WFox Hills — 46.10°N, 100.42°WFox Hills — 46.26°N, 100.55°WFox Hills — 46.28°N, 100.52°WFox Hills — 46.33°N, 100.32°WFox Hills — 46.38°N, 100.32°WGebel Silsila-YCS — 24.50°N, 33.00°ESolimoes — 10.12°S, 66.88°WSolimoes — 8.18°S, 70.48°WSolimoes — 10.94°S, 69.34°WSolimoes — 10.93°S, 69.92°WSolimoes — 8.93°S, 72.80°WSolimoes — 8.80°S, 68.75°WSolimoes — 9.02°S, 68.81°WFort Union — 47.60°N, 107.00°WFort Union — 47.58°N, 107.05°WShungura — 5.08°N, 36.03°EKakara — 1.00°N, 30.50°EValentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WValentine — 42.79°N, 100.07°WValentine — 42.49°N, 98.11°WValentine — 42.60°N, 98.00°WGreen River — 41.77°N, 110.75°WGreen River — 41.61°N, 109.39°WGreen River — 42.07°N, 110.09°WGreen River — 41.63°N, 109.50°WGreen River — 42.17°N, 109.42°W

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The named rock units Ostariophysi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 244 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 422 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ostariophysi and its relatives

Miocene

Where Ostariophysi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,558 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 846 sites for Ostariophysi, and this reads 240 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

484 references

Each of the 1,588 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. 472 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 Ostariophysi

Credit
Bryan Harry (U.S. National Park Service)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ostariophysi 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

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 itOtomorpha through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Jordan and Evermann 1896)