Saurida

Saurida is a genus of fish in the family Harpadontidae.

Saurida

Theo Modder · CC BY 3.0 · 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
SynodontidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Aulopiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Aulopiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Aulopiformes

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesEocene — about 8 of 27 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 27 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 13 of 27 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 27 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–40 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence48.07 Mya129 ka57 Mya0 Mya

27 occurrences of Saurida on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

27 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

12 formations

Navidad — 33.90°S, 71.84°WNavidad — 33.94°S, 71.85°WMiretrain Marl — 43.56°N, 1.11°WHrušky — 48.81°N, 16.63°EElmore — 50.80°N, 1.21°WAlzey — 49.83°N, 7.72°EGatun — 9.36°N, 79.84°WBassevelde Sand — 51.08°N, 4.35°ENanggulan — 7.73°S, 110.18°EKishima — 33.38°N, 129.93°EMandrové — 1.09°S, 8.94°ELede — 50.92°N, 3.78°EBashi — 31.93°N, 87.87°W

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The named rock units Saurida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Saurida and its relatives

Miocene

Where Saurida and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

798 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Saurida, 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

18 references

Each of the 27 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. 6 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 content3

Picture of Saurida

Credit
Theo Modder
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Saurida tumbil · UWFC:ADULT COLLECTION:UW 021117

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itSynodontidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.