Pleuropholis

Pleuropholis is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish.

Pleuropholis

Daderot · CC0 · 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
PleuropholidaePBDB
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 152.21 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 3 of 12 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 8 of 12 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 12 occurrencesLate Cretaceous153–151 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 1 occurrence149–147 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences147–145 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–141 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 1 occurrence139–137 Mya — about 3 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 1 occurrence111–109 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149.2 Mya100.5 Mya153 Mya93 Mya

12 occurrences of Pleuropholis 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

12 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

Jydegaard — 55.08°N, 14.75°ELa Huérguina — 40.06°N, 1.88°WTorleite — 50.04°N, 11.12°EAkrabou — 30.51°N, 4.84°WSolnhofen — 48.94°N, 8.41°E

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The named rock units Pleuropholis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pleuropholis and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

220 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Pleuropholis, 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

10 references

Each of the 12 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. 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 Pleuropholis

Credit
Daderot
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Clypeobarbus pleuropholis · AUM:AUM:51243

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 itPleuropholidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Egerton 1858