Osteichthyes

Searched as Osteichthyes indet.. The Paleobiology Database treats Osteichthyes as the accepted name.

Osteichthyes, also known as osteichthyans or commonly referred to as the bony fish, is a diverse clade of vertebrate animals that have endoskeletons primarily composed of bone tissue, encompassing both the conventional bony fishes and, in a cladistic sense, all tetrapods, including mammals and reptiles. They can be contrasted with the Chondrichthyes and the extinct placoderms and acanthodians, which have endoskeletons primarily composed of cartilage. The vast majority of extant fish are members of Osteichthyes, being an extremely diverse and abundant group consisting of 45 orders, over 435 families and 28,000 species.

Osteichthyes

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
bony fishPBDB
Sits inside
GnathostomataPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 432 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 748 occurrencesSilurian — about 2 of 748 occurrencesDevonian — about 3 of 748 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 18 of 748 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 33 of 748 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 3 of 748 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 11 of 748 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 74 of 748 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 12 of 748 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 18 of 748 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 17 of 748 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 80 of 748 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 247 of 748 occurrencesPaleocene — about 15 of 748 occurrencesEocene — about 46 of 748 occurrencesOligocene — about 18 of 748 occurrencesMiocene — about 56 of 748 occurrencesPliocene — about 40 of 748 occurrencesPleistocene — about 48 of 748 occurrences447–432 Mya — about 1 occurrence432–418 Mya — about 1 occurrence388–373 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences373–358 Mya — about 2 occurrences358–343 Mya — about 2 occurrences343–328 Mya — about 2 occurrences328–313 Mya — about 13 occurrences313–298 Mya — about 2 occurrences298–283 Mya — about 5 occurrences283–268 Mya — about 8 occurrences268–254 Mya — about 19 occurrences254–239 Mya — about 15 occurrences239–224 Mya — about 29 occurrences224–209 Mya — about 36 occurrences209–194 Mya — about 15 occurrences194–179 Mya — about 6 occurrences179–164 Mya — about 16 occurrences164–149 Mya — about 8 occurrences149–134 Mya — about 19 occurrences134–119 Mya — about 32 occurrences119–104 Mya — about 33 occurrences104–89 Mya — about 59 occurrences89–75 Mya — about 86 occurrences75–60 Mya — about 114 occurrences60–45 Mya — about 32 occurrences45–30 Mya — about 31 occurrences30–15 Mya — about 31 occurrences15–0 Mya — about 131 occurrences432.9 Mya11.7 ka447 Mya0 Mya

748 occurrences of Osteichthyes on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

748 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

293 formations

Dinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.48°WDinosaur Park — 50.74°N, 111.49°WDinosaur Park — 50.79°N, 111.62°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.40°WDinosaur Park — 50.78°N, 111.33°WDinosaur Park — 50.56°N, 111.46°WDinosaur Park — 50.68°N, 108.09°WDinosaur Park — 50.51°N, 110.39°WHell Creek — 47.55°N, 107.13°WHell Creek — 47.62°N, 107.32°WHell Creek — 47.57°N, 107.10°WHell Creek — 47.53°N, 106.92°WHell Creek — 47.07°N, 106.92°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 106.27°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 107.00°WHell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 107.00°WHell Creek — 46.29°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 45.95°N, 104.92°WHell Creek — 46.00°N, 103.19°WHell Creek — 47.72°N, 106.53°WChinle — 34.44°N, 109.46°WChinle — 34.94°N, 109.77°WChinle — 35.65°N, 111.12°WChinle — 35.84°N, 111.25°WChinle — 34.53°N, 109.32°WChinle — 36.33°N, 106.47°WPhosphoria — 42.97°N, 106.78°WPhosphoria — 39.60°N, 110.82°WPhosphoria — 47.06°N, 109.43°WPhosphoria — 44.00°N, 114.00°WCotinguiba — 10.85°S, 37.17°WCotinguiba — 10.86°S, 37.15°WCotinguiba — 10.82°S, 37.04°WGastrioceras cumbriense Marine Band — 53.65°N, 2.65°WGastrioceras cumbriense Marine Band — 53.58°N, 2.43°WGastrioceras cumbriense Marine Band — 53.70°N, 2.30°WGastrioceras cumbriense Marine Band — 53.72°N, 2.08°WTransitional Beds — 56.13°N, 123.08°WAllen — 40.06°S, 66.80°WAllen — 39.46°S, 67.33°WShungura — 5.08°N, 36.03°EShungura — 5.04°N, 36.01°ECloverly — 45.26°N, 108.41°WCloverly — 44.65°N, 107.88°WCloverly — 44.51°N, 107.90°WCloverly — 44.50°N, 107.82°WCloverly — 44.47°N, 109.05°WCloverly — 44.44°N, 109.06°WFalling Creek — 37.83°N, 77.43°WPark City — 42.97°N, 106.78°WPark City — 39.60°N, 110.82°WPark City — 47.06°N, 109.43°WPark City — 44.00°N, 114.00°WIsalo IIIb — 16.55°S, 46.98°EFruitland/Kirtland — 36.06°N, 107.96°WFruitland/Kirtland — 36.31°N, 108.17°WFruitland/Kirtland — 36.17°N, 107.96°WFruitland/Kirtland — 35.99°N, 107.58°WAguja — 29.10°N, 103.17°WAguja — 29.46°N, 103.56°WOlorgesailie — 1.58°S, 36.43°EMorrison — 40.44°N, 109.32°WMorrison — 41.98°N, 106.15°WMorrison — 44.02°N, 104.24°WMorrison — 44.46°N, 104.73°WMorrison — 38.99°N, 109.27°WMorrison — 36.92°N, 102.98°WNemegt — 47.73°N, 104.92°ENemegt — 43.82°N, 99.98°ENemegt — 43.87°N, 100.01°ENemegt — 43.47°N, 99.83°ENemegt — 43.51°N, 101.05°ENemegt — 43.44°N, 100.37°EVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EWembere-Manonga — 3.88°S, 33.72°EWembere-Manonga — 3.88°S, 33.97°EWembere-Manonga — 4.03°S, 33.77°EWembere-Manonga — 3.93°S, 33.62°ELa Posa — 42.05°N, 0.22°WLa Posa — 42.53°N, 1.22°ELa Posa — 42.16°N, 0.96°ELa Posa — 42.35°N, 0.52°ELa Posa — 42.34°N, 0.57°EArcillas de Morella — 40.61°N, 0.11°WArcillas de Morella — 40.59°N, 0.16°WArcillas de Morella — 40.49°N, 0.42°EOldman — 50.75°N, 111.51°WOldman — 50.83°N, 111.32°WOldman — 49.23°N, 110.69°WLance — 42.58°N, 105.39°WLance — 43.18°N, 104.53°WLance — 43.80°N, 104.62°WLance — 44.94°N, 108.85°W

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The named rock units Osteichthyes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 269 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 113 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Osteichthyes and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

2,728 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 651 sites for Osteichthyes, 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

428 references

Each of the 748 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. 416 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 Osteichthyes

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGnathostomata through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Huxley 1880)