Pleuropholidae

Pleuropholidae is an extinct family of stem-teleost fish that lived from the Middle Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous. It is one of several families that were historically placed in the paraphyletic order Pholidophoriformes. Pleuropholids can be distinguished from other "pholidophoriforms" by the elongated scales on the sides of their bodies.

Pleuropholidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PholidophoriformesPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 3 of 15 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 10 of 15 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 15 occurrences204–200 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences200–196 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences196–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–189 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences189–185 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences185–181 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–163 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences163–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–151 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences151–148 Mya — about 2 occurrences148–144 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences144–140 Mya — about 2 occurrences140–136 Mya — about 4 occurrences136–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–122 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences122–118 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences118–114 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences114–110 Mya — about 2 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences99–95 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences149.2 Mya100.5 Mya204 Mya92 Mya

15 occurrences of Pleuropholidae on record, most of them in the Early 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

15 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

7 formations

Jydegaard — 55.08°N, 14.75°ELagarcito — 32.50°S, 66.99°WLa Huérguina — 40.06°N, 1.88°WTorleite — 50.04°N, 11.12°EMissão Velha — 7.26°S, 39.14°WAkrabou — 30.51°N, 4.84°WSolnhofen — 48.94°N, 8.41°E

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The named rock units Pleuropholidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pleuropholidae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

249 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Pleuropholidae, 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

13 references

Each of the 15 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. 1 further reference is 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 Pleuropholidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Pleuropholidae 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 itPholidophoriformes through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.