Accipenseridae
No picture of Accipenseridae 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 Accipenseridae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcipenseroideiPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Acipenseriformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Acipenseriformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Acipenseriformes
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 7.246 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Accipenseridae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
1 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
- Chersonian Formation · Balta Group1
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The named rock units Accipenseridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Accipenseridae and its relatives
MioceneWhere Accipenseridae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Alilepus1 site
- Bombina1 site
- Chilotherium1 site
- Collimys1 site
- Delphinidae1 site
- Dugongidae1 site
- Esox1 site
- Gazella1 site
- Hipparion1 site
- Hyla1 site
- Leuciscus1 site
- Machairodus giganteus1 site
- Metailurus parvulus1 site
- Metaxytherium1 site
- Miotragocerus1 site
- Neocricetodon1 site
- Palaeotragus1 site
- Parataxidea1 site
- Physeteroidea1 site
- Proochotona1 site
- Protestudo1 site
- Protictitherium1 site
- Rutilus1 site
- Scardinius1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Accipenseridae, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Accipenseridae 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 Accipenseridae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Accipenseridae 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAcipenseroidei through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.