Ostariostoma

Ostariostoma is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Late Cretaceous epoch.

No picture of Ostariostoma was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ostariostoma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ElopiformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Elopiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Elopiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Elopiformes

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 63.4 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 7 of 8 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 8 occurrencesPaleocene86–85 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–84 Mya — about 1 occurrence84–83 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83.6 Mya66 Mya86.2 Mya62.9 Mya

8 occurrences of Ostariostoma 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

8 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

5 formations

Milk River — 49.10°N, 111.80°WDinosaur Park — 50.68°N, 108.09°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.57°WScollard — 51.91°N, 112.97°WRavenscrag — 49.60°N, 108.70°W

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

Ostariostoma and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

221 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Ostariostoma, 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

4 references

Each of the 8 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 content0

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

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

No 3D scan of Ostariostoma was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itElopiformes through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schaeffer 1949