Paraclupeidae

Paraclupeidae

Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
EllimmichthyiformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ellimmichthyiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ellimmichthyiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ellimmichthyiformes

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 14 of 24 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 9 of 24 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 24 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 24 occurrencesEocene139–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–133 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences133–130 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences130–126 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences117–114 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences114–111 Mya — about 2 occurrences111–108 Mya — about 3 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 3 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 2 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 3 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 4 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 2 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–52 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences49–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121.4 Mya56 Mya139 Mya46 Mya

24 occurrences of Paraclupeidae on record, most of them in the Early 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

24 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

Tlayúa — 18.59°N, 97.90°WSannine — 34.06°N, 35.69°ESierra Madre — 16.68°N, 93.46°WCintalapa — 16.57°N, 93.27°WBet Meir or Amminadav — 31.95°N, 35.26°EAkrabou — 30.51°N, 4.84°WDunvegan — 54.95°N, 118.87°WVillaro — 43.12°N, 2.77°WLoon River — 60.02°N, 116.95°WCantelhá — 16.71°N, 92.65°W

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The named rock units Paraclupeidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paraclupeidae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Paraclupeidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

275 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Paraclupeidae, 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

16 references

Each of the 24 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. 4 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 Paraclupeidae

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

No 3D scan of Paraclupeidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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

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What may have been alongside itEllimmichthyiformes through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chang and Chou 1977