Wilsonichthys aridinsulensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- WilsonichthysPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Osteoglossiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Osteoglossiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteoglossiformes
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Osteoglossiformes
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Wilsonichthys aridinsulensis 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
9 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
3 formations
- Hell Creek Formation · Montana Group6
- Scollard Formation2
- Lance Formation1
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The named rock units Wilsonichthys aridinsulensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Wilsonichthys aridinsulensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Wilsonichthys aridinsulensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
174 taxa- Osteoglossomorpha9 sites
- Acanthomorphata8 sites
- Hiodontidae8 sites
- Teleostei8 sites
- Estesesox7 sites
- Coriops6 sites
- Otophysa6 sites
- Euteleostei5 sites
- Habrosaurus dilatus5 sites
- Percopsiformes5 sites
- Albanerpetontidae4 sites
- Lisserpeton bairdi4 sites
- Opisthotriton kayi4 sites
- Scapherpeton tectum4 sites
- Amiidae3 sites
- Didelphodon vorax3 sites
- Lepisosteidae3 sites
- Myledaphus pustulosus3 sites
- Notogoneus3 sites
- Ostariophysi3 sites
- Paranecturus garbanii3 sites
- Platacodon nanus3 sites
- Restesia americana3 sites
- Adocus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Wilsonichthys aridinsulensis, 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
2 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 localities8
- New articulated osteoglossomorph from Late Cretaceous freshwater deposits (Maastrichtian, Scollard Formation) of Alberta, Canada1
Each of the 9 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 aridinsulensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Wilsonichthys aridinsulensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Wilsonichthys aridinsulensis was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itWilsonichthys through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Murray et al. 2016