Wilsonichthys
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OsteoglossiformesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Osteoglossiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Osteoglossiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteoglossiformes
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Osteoglossiformes
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 66 Mya.
22 occurrences of Wilsonichthys on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
22 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
4 formations
- Hell Creek Formation · Montana Group14
- Milk River Formation5
- Scollard Formation2
- Lance Formation1
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The named rock units Wilsonichthys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Wilsonichthys and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Wilsonichthys and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
222 taxa- Acanthomorphata14 sites
- Teleostei13 sites
- Hiodontidae12 sites
- Otophysa11 sites
- Osteoglossomorpha10 sites
- Estesesox7 sites
- Estesesox foxi7 sites
- Lepisosteidae7 sites
- Coriops6 sites
- Habrosaurus dilatus6 sites
- Albanerpeton galaktion5 sites
- Albanerpeton nexuosus5 sites
- Albanerpetontidae5 sites
- Dromaeosauridae5 sites
- Euteleostei5 sites
- Opisthotriton kayi5 sites
- Paronychodon5 sites
- Percopsiformes5 sites
- Amiinae4 sites
- Dromaeosaurinae4 sites
- Elopomorpha4 sites
- Lisserpeton bairdi4 sites
- Lonchidion4 sites
- Notogoneus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Wilsonichthys, 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
3 references- A systematic reappraisal and quantitative study of the nonmarine teleost fishes from the late Maastrichtian of the Western Interior of North America: evidence from vertebrate microfossil localities15
- Non-marine fishes of the late Santonian Milk River Formation of Alberta, Canada – evidence from vertebrate microfossil localities5
- New articulated osteoglossomorph from Late Cretaceous freshwater deposits (Maastrichtian, Scollard Formation) of Alberta, Canada2
Each of the 22 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Wilsonichthys 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 Wilsonichthys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Wilsonichthys 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itOsteoglossiformes through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Murray et al. 2016