Amia uintaensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmiaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, piscivorePBDB, for Amiiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Amiiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Amiiformes
Time the record covers
At least 16 million years on record.
The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
14 occurrences of Amia uintaensis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
14 occurrences- Late Cretaceous57%
- Paleocene7%
- Eocene36%
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
8 formations
- Hell Creek Formation · Montana Group5
- Lance Formation2
- Green River Formation2
- Golden Valley Formation1
- Fruitland Formation1
- Margaret Formation · Eureka Sound Group1
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The named rock units Amia uintaensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Amia uintaensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Amia uintaensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
244 taxa- Amia fragosa11 sites
- Lepisosteus occidentalis8 sites
- Osteichthyes7 sites
- Scapherpeton tectum7 sites
- Trionychidae7 sites
- Borealosuchus sternbergii6 sites
- Brachychampsa montana6 sites
- Cryptodira6 sites
- Lonchidion selachos6 sites
- Myledaphus bipartitus6 sites
- Reptilia6 sites
- Sauria6 sites
- Chelydridae5 sites
- Chirostenotes5 sites
- Cimolodon nitidus5 sites
- Crocodylidae5 sites
- Lepisosteus5 sites
- Mesodma thompsoni5 sites
- Opisthotriton kayi5 sites
- Theropoda5 sites
- Adocus4 sites
- Alphadon4 sites
- Anura4 sites
- Aves4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Amia uintaensis, 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
7 references- Fossil Vertebrate Collections7
- Paleontology of the Green River Formation, with a review of the fish fauna2
- Lower vertebrates from the Golden Valley Formation, Early Eocene of North Dakota1
- Depositional environments and paleontology of Lewis Shale to lower Kirtland Shale sequence (Upper Cretaceous), Bisti area, northwestern New Mexico1
- Eocene lower vertebrates from Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago1
- Middle Paleocene lower vertebrates from the Tongue River Formation, southeastern Montana1
- Notice of remains of fishes in the Bridger Tertiary formation of Wyoming1
Each of the 14 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. 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
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No picture of Amia uintaensis 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 Amia uintaensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itAmia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Leidy 1873)