Sardinioides

Sardinioides is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish from the Campanian. It is a member of the order Myctophiformes, and considered a sister group to Paleogene and modern neoscopelids and myctophids.

Sardinioides

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
SardinioididaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Myctophiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Myctophiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Myctophiformes

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 20 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 20 of 20 occurrencesLate Cretaceous101–100 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 2 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences93.9 Mya83.6 Mya101.1 Mya71.6 Mya

20 occurrences of Sardinioides 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

20 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

3 formations

Ahlen — 51.83°N, 7.83°EAhlen — 51.86°N, 7.74°EZig Zag Chalk — 51.33°N, 0.49°EHolleywell, New Pit, Lewes — 51.30°N, 0.39°E

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The named rock units Sardinioides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sardinioides and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

183 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Sardinioides, 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 20 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 content1

Picture of Sardinioides

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

No 3D scan of Sardinioides 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

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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 itSardinioididae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. von der Marck 1858