Apsopelix

Searched as Apsopelix anglicus. The Paleobiology Database treats Apsopelix as the accepted name.

Apsopelix is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish that existed about 95-80 million years ago in the shallow waters of the Western Interior Seaway, Hudson Seaway, England, France, and Japan.

Apsopelix

Uncredited · via Wikipedia/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
CrossognathidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Crossognathiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Crossognathiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Crossognathiformes

Time the record covers

At least 4.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 83.6 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 2 occurrencesLate Cretaceous101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89.8 Mya85.7 Mya101 Mya83.1 Mya

2 occurrences of Apsopelix 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

2 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

2 formations

Niobrara — 38.72°N, 100.70°WHolleywell, New Pit, Lewes — 51.30°N, 0.39°E

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The named rock units Apsopelix has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Apsopelix and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

25 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Apsopelix, 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

Each of the 2 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 content1

Picture of Apsopelix

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Apsopelix 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCrossognathidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1871