Siluridae

Siluridae is the nominate family of catfishes in the order Siluriformes. About 105 living species of silurids are placed in 12 or 14 genera.

Siluridae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SiluroideiPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Siluriformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Siluriformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Siluriformes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Siluriformes

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 55 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 55 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 55 occurrencesEocene — about 12 of 55 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 55 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 23 of 55 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 55 occurrencesPleistocene — about 9 of 55 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–34 Mya — about 4 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 8 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 6 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 15 occurrences93.9 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

55 occurrences of Siluridae 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

55 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

19 formations

Cypress HIlls — 49.57°N, 109.88°WGoliad — 28.49°N, 97.67°WGoliad — 28.60°N, 97.70°WGreen River — 42.13°N, 110.13°WGreen River — 41.63°N, 109.50°WGreen River — 42.17°N, 109.42°WTatrot — 30.73°N, 76.78°EWashakie — 40.60°N, 108.10°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WEl Molino — 17.69°S, 65.94°WKhapry — 47.24°N, 39.71°EEntre Rios — 33.72°S, 59.25°WLangental Beds — 27.40°S, 15.41°ECórcoles — 40.47°N, 2.68°WYalakdere — 40.61°N, 29.25°EVillavieja — 3.22°N, 75.14°WTruckee — 39.53°N, 119.11°WBridger — 41.85°N, 109.78°WReuver clay — 50.90°N, 6.45°EFleming — 30.75°N, 95.27°WBahariya — 28.43°N, 28.92°EVolhyn Beds — 50.70°N, 27.00°E

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The named rock units Siluridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Siluridae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Siluridae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,278 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Siluridae, 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

41 references

Each of the 55 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. 29 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 content1

Picture of Siluridae

Credit
Original uploader was วัตุลึกลับใต้น้ำ at th.wikipedia
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Siluridae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cuvier 1816