Amiinae

Amiinae

Duane Raver/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmiidaePBDB
Diet
carnivore, piscivorePBDB, for Amiiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Amiiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Amiiformes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 73 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 20 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 16.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 161 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 129 of 161 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 11 of 161 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 17 of 161 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 161 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 161 occurrencesMiocene102–99 Mya — about 1 occurrence99–96 Mya — about 4 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 3 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 2 occurrences91–88 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 6 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 7 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 7 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 7 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 29 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 41 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 25 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 3 occurrences62–59 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences59–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–53 Mya — about 2 occurrences53–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 3 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences33–30 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences30–27 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences93.9 Mya20 Mya102 Mya15 Mya

161 occurrences of Amiinae 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

161 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

34 formations

Hell Creek — 45.95°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 46.10°N, 103.30°WHell Creek — 45.98°N, 103.75°WHell Creek — 46.18°N, 103.84°WHell Creek — 46.14°N, 103.80°WHell Creek — 46.41°N, 103.94°WHell Creek — 46.38°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 46.46°N, 104.02°WHell Creek — 46.33°N, 103.90°WHell Creek — 45.94°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 107.18°WHell Creek — 46.90°N, 101.50°WHell Creek — 46.41°N, 103.50°WHell Creek — 45.53°N, 101.63°WHell Creek — 45.00°N, 103.19°WFerris — 41.94°N, 106.88°WFerris — 41.80°N, 107.00°WFerris — 41.96°N, 106.89°WDinosaur Park — 50.74°N, 111.49°WDinosaur Park — 50.79°N, 111.62°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.46°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.40°WDinosaur Park — 50.78°N, 111.33°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.57°WLance — 43.17°N, 104.53°WLance — 43.13°N, 104.49°WLance — 43.12°N, 104.64°WLance — 43.00°N, 104.50°WLance — 43.28°N, 104.53°WHorseshoe Canyon — 52.00°N, 112.88°WOldman — 50.75°N, 111.51°WOldman — 50.83°N, 111.32°WKhodzhakul — 40.10°N, 65.80°EKhodzhakul — 40.60°N, 71.83°EMilk River — 49.10°N, 111.80°WBissekty — 42.12°N, 62.66°EKanguk — 79.39°N, 92.18°WScollard — 54.79°N, 115.46°WScollard — 52.33°N, 113.12°WArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EMedicine Bow — 41.80°N, 107.00°WCypress HIlls — 49.57°N, 109.88°WMessel — 49.93°N, 8.73°EPaskapoo — 54.80°N, 115.46°WMesaverde — 42.85°N, 107.28°WJudith River — 46.10°N, 109.10°WTullock — 47.80°N, 106.10°WFrenchman — 49.30°N, 108.40°WNa Duong — 21.70°N, 106.97°EJibou — 47.26°N, 23.26°ECedar Mountain — 38.64°N, 111.37°WBridger — 41.85°N, 109.78°W

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The named rock units Amiinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Amiinae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Amiinae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,052 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 158 sites for Amiinae, 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

44 references

Each of the 161 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. 32 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 Amiinae

Credit
Duane Raver/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Bonaparte 1837