Pseudoegertonia
Pseudoegertonia is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Maastrichtian age of the Cretaceous period and Danian age of the Paleocene epoch.
No picture of Pseudoegertonia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pseudoegertonia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParalbulinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Elopiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Elopiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Elopiformes
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 61.66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 59.24 Mya.
5 occurrences of Pseudoegertonia 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
5 occurrences- Late Cretaceous80%
- Paleocene20%
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
3 formations
- Fruitland Formation1
- Phosphorite Unit Formation · Balqa Group1
- Heers Formation1
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The named rock units Pseudoegertonia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pseudoegertonia and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Pseudoegertonia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
131 taxa- Chelonioidea3 sites
- Elasmosauridae3 sites
- Plioplatecarpinae3 sites
- Pycnodontidae3 sites
- Rhombodus binkhorsti3 sites
- Squalicorax bassanii3 sites
- Stephanodus3 sites
- Stratodus apicalis3 sites
- Amia2 sites
- Bothremydidae2 sites
- Cretalamna2 sites
- Cretalamna biauriculata2 sites
- Cretalamna maroccana2 sites
- Crocodylia2 sites
- Ctenopristis nougareti2 sites
- Dalpiazia stromeri2 sites
- Dyrosauridae2 sites
- Enchodus elegans2 sites
- Eremiasaurus heterodontus2 sites
- Ganopristis leptodon2 sites
- Globidens phosphaticus2 sites
- Halisaurus arambourgi2 sites
- Pachyvaranus crassispondylus2 sites
- Plicatoscyllium2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Pseudoegertonia, 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
4 references- Marine vertebrate faunas from the Maastrichtian phosphates of Benguérir (Ganntour Basin, Morocco): Biostratigraphy, palaeobiogeography and palaeoecology2
- Marine reptiles from the Late Cretaceous Phosphates of Jordan: palaeobiogeographical implications1
- Depositional environments and paleontology of Lewis Shale to lower Kirtland Shale sequence (Upper Cretaceous), Bisti area, northwestern New Mexico1
- Les vertébrés du Landènien inférieur (Lla ou Heersien) de Maret (Hameau d'Orp-le-Grand)1
Each of the 5 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 content0
No picture of Pseudoegertonia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pseudoegertonia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pseudoegertonia 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itParalbulinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dartevelle and Casier 1949