Baenidae

Searched as Baenidae indet.. The Paleobiology Database treats Baenidae as the accepted name.

Baenidae

Uncredited · 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
ParacryptodiraPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida

Time the record covers

At least 97 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 45.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 39.7 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 7 of 228 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 228 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 187 of 228 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 29 of 228 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 5 of 228 occurrencesEocene157–153 Mya — about 1 occurrence153–149 Mya — about 2 occurrences149–145 Mya — about 2 occurrences145–141 Mya — about 1 occurrence101–97 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences97–93 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 20 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 34 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 34 occurrences73–69 Mya — about 50 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 53 occurrences65–61 Mya — about 17 occurrences61–57 Mya — about 3 occurrences57–53 Mya — about 2 occurrences53–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–41 Mya — about 3 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence143.1 Mya45.9 Mya157 Mya37 Mya

228 occurrences of Baenidae 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

228 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

32 formations

Hell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WHell Creek — 47.68°N, 106.43°WHell Creek — 46.03°N, 103.77°WHell Creek — 46.21°N, 103.77°WHell Creek — 46.38°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 45.95°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 46.41°N, 103.94°WHell Creek — 46.10°N, 103.30°WHell Creek — 46.33°N, 103.90°WHell Creek — 46.46°N, 104.00°WHell Creek — 45.94°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 47.55°N, 107.13°WHell Creek — 47.62°N, 107.32°WHell Creek — 47.57°N, 107.10°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 107.18°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 106.27°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 107.23°WHell Creek — 46.90°N, 101.50°WHell Creek — 46.09°N, 100.63°WHell Creek — 47.61°N, 106.90°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 107.00°WHell Creek — 46.41°N, 103.50°WHell Creek — 45.89°N, 104.55°WHell Creek — 46.33°N, 104.01°WHell Creek — 45.59°N, 103.50°WHell Creek — 45.87°N, 103.79°WDinosaur Park — 49.12°N, 110.47°WDinosaur Park — 50.82°N, 111.57°WDinosaur Park — 50.74°N, 111.48°WDinosaur Park — 50.77°N, 111.51°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.40°WDinosaur Park — 50.78°N, 111.33°WDinosaur Park — 50.68°N, 108.09°WKirtland — 36.16°N, 107.93°WKirtland — 36.20°N, 108.10°WKirtland — 36.34°N, 108.21°WKirtland — 36.14°N, 108.11°WKirtland — 36.30°N, 108.10°WKirtland — 36.29°N, 108.54°WKirtland — 36.10°N, 107.79°WOldman — 50.75°N, 111.51°WOldman — 49.10°N, 110.94°WOldman — 49.08°N, 110.84°WOldman — 49.08°N, 110.68°WOldman — 49.16°N, 110.72°WDenver — 39.70°N, 104.70°WDenver — 39.95°N, 105.23°WDenver — 39.75°N, 105.22°WDenver — 38.80°N, 104.80°WDenver — 38.87°N, 104.61°WDenver — 39.63°N, 104.33°WDenver — 39.50°N, 104.70°WDenver — 38.91°N, 104.53°WFerris — 41.94°N, 106.88°WFerris — 41.80°N, 107.00°WFerris — 41.96°N, 106.89°WLance — 43.30°N, 104.37°WLance — 43.12°N, 104.64°WLance — 41.57°N, 108.67°WLance — 43.18°N, 104.53°WLance — 43.13°N, 104.49°WLance — 43.00°N, 104.50°WAguja — 29.20°N, 103.55°WMorrison — 41.91°N, 105.97°WMorrison — 41.91°N, 105.95°WFruitland — 36.26°N, 108.19°WFruitland — 36.29°N, 108.55°WFruitland — 36.12°N, 107.78°WMenefee — 35.70°N, 107.20°WMenefee — 35.32°N, 106.94°WAguja — 28.94°N, 103.37°WAguja — 28.92°N, 103.34°WAguja — 28.99°N, 103.31°WAguja — 28.98°N, 103.38°WForemost — 50.07°N, 111.14°WForemost — 49.13°N, 110.87°WForemost — 49.60°N, 111.00°WJudith River — 47.81°N, 109.59°WJudith River — 48.93°N, 110.57°WJudith River — 46.46°N, 109.41°WUinta — 40.08°N, 109.27°WFort Union — 43.85°N, 108.35°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWahweap — 37.60°N, 111.90°WWahweap — 37.20°N, 111.61°WWasatch — 42.37°N, 108.91°WPoint Lookout — 35.20°N, 107.05°WWashakie — 40.60°N, 108.10°WBullion Creek — 47.03°N, 103.65°WJudith River — 49.10°N, 109.50°WTullock — 47.80°N, 106.10°WKirtland? — 36.29°N, 108.54°W

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The named rock units Baenidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Baenidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,269 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 462 sites for Baenidae, and this reads 240 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

56 references

Each of the 228 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. 44 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 content3

Picture of Baenidae

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

Structured light scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Baenidae indet. · dmnh:epv:149256

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itParacryptodira through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cope 1882)