Paralbula

Paralbula is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish. They can be found in the Hell Creek Formation, in Montana, United States as well as in the Tar Heel/Coachman Formation in North Carolina, United States.

Paralbula

Fort Hays Sternberg Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
PhyllodontidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Elopiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Elopiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Elopiformes

Time the record covers

At least 60 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 110 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 101 of 110 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 110 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 6 of 110 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 110 occurrencesOligocene102–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 13 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 18 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 18 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 18 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 15 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 9 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 9 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–46 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93.9 Mya33.9 Mya102 Mya26 Mya

110 occurrences of Paralbula 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

110 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

35 formations

Dinosaur Park — 50.81°N, 111.32°WDinosaur Park — 49.12°N, 110.47°WDinosaur Park — 50.74°N, 111.49°WDinosaur Park — 50.79°N, 111.62°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.46°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.40°WDinosaur Park — 50.68°N, 108.09°WOldman — 50.75°N, 111.51°WOldman — 49.10°N, 110.94°WOldman — 49.08°N, 110.84°WOldman — 49.08°N, 110.68°WOldman — 49.16°N, 110.72°WOldman — 50.83°N, 111.32°WOldman — 49.15°N, 110.40°WFox Hills — 46.05°N, 103.88°WFox Hills — 46.47°N, 99.58°WFox Hills — 46.11°N, 103.90°WFox Hills — 44.52°N, 102.39°WFruitland — 36.49°N, 108.49°WFruitland — 36.27°N, 108.26°WJudith River — 47.81°N, 109.59°WJudith River — 46.47°N, 109.30°WJudith River — 46.46°N, 109.41°WJudith River — 46.10°N, 109.10°WHornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.13°WMarshalltown — 40.30°N, 74.30°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WForemost — 50.07°N, 111.14°WForemost — 49.13°N, 110.87°WTar Heel — 34.57°N, 78.50°WTar Heel — 34.61°N, 78.60°WNavesink — 40.35°N, 74.18°WNavesink — 40.38°N, 74.21°WTallahatta — 31.31°N, 88.73°WTallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°WAguja — 29.30°N, 103.57°WAguja — 29.46°N, 103.56°WWilliams Fork — 40.03°N, 108.85°WWilliams Fork — 39.93°N, 108.82°WConques — 42.09°N, 1.00°EConques — 42.09°N, 0.69°EHell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WLaredo — 27.53°N, 99.43°WBlufftown — 32.16°N, 85.03°WSt. Mary River — 49.91°N, 112.99°WJudith River — 49.10°N, 109.50°WMount Laurel — 40.26°N, 74.27°WCusseta — 32.14°N, 84.95°WFerris — 41.93°N, 106.89°WDonoho Creek — 34.06°N, 79.53°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°W

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The named rock units Paralbula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed.

Paralbula and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,130 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 107 sites for Paralbula, 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

49 references

Each of the 110 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. 37 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 Paralbula

Source
GBIF
Credit
Fort Hays Sternberg Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Paralbula 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.

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 itPhyllodontidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blake 1940