Caturidae

Caturidae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 179 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 254.14 Mya to 66 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 101 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 101 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 3 of 101 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 101 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 16 of 101 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 4 of 101 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 33 of 101 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 21 of 101 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 21 of 101 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 101 occurrences258–251 Mya — about 1 occurrence245–238 Mya — about 2 occurrences238–232 Mya — about 1 occurrence232–225 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences225–219 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences219–212 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences212–206 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences206–199 Mya — about 2 occurrences199–193 Mya — about 9 occurrences186–180 Mya — about 7 occurrences173–167 Mya — about 2 occurrences167–160 Mya — about 2 occurrences160–154 Mya — about 5 occurrences154–147 Mya — about 18 occurrences147–141 Mya — about 14 occurrences141–134 Mya — about 2 occurrences134–127 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences127–121 Mya — about 6 occurrences121–114 Mya — about 4 occurrences114–108 Mya — about 2 occurrences108–101 Mya — about 2 occurrences101–95 Mya — about 10 occurrences95–88 Mya — about 10 occurrences75–69 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences69–62 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences251.902 Mya72.2 Mya258 Mya62 Mya

101 occurrences of Caturidae on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

101 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

37 formations

Greenhorn Limestone — 37.69°N, 103.94°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.81°N, 97.34°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.74°N, 97.65°WGreenhorn Limestone — 42.64°N, 96.53°WGreenhorn Limestone — 37.46°N, 103.05°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.04°N, 98.99°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.78°N, 98.96°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.92°N, 98.90°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.81°N, 97.38°WSolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°ESolnhofen — 48.90°N, 11.18°ESolnhofen — 48.94°N, 8.41°EAïn el Guettar — 33.17°N, 10.26°EAïn el Guettar — 32.68°N, 10.17°ELourinhã — 39.22°N, 9.34°WGrünsandstein — 48.93°N, 11.83°ELa Huérguina — 40.06°N, 1.88°WLa Huérguina — 40.12°N, 1.97°WSables de Glos — 49.11°N, 0.38°EMuschelkalk — 41.27°N, 1.12°ELiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°EGraneros Shale — 40.01°N, 97.17°WGraneros Shale — 38.93°N, 98.91°WAtherfield Clay — 50.62°N, 1.34°WAtherfield Clay — 51.23°N, 0.25°WAshville — 53.48°N, 102.24°WDockum — 33.50°N, 101.13°WKamo — 34.48°N, 136.85°ECalcaires à Stipites — 44.07°N, 3.29°EWessex — 50.64°N, 1.41°WCabaços — 39.91°N, 8.95°WLa Cabaña — 43.34°N, 5.84°WDouiret — 32.87°N, 10.38°EChangxing — 28.68°N, 115.90°ESundance — 43.42°N, 103.47°WOxford Clay — 51.50°N, 2.06°WBückeberg — 52.26°N, 7.03°ESot de Chera — 41.12°N, 0.83°W

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The named rock units Caturidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 36 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Caturidae and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Caturidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1,004 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 75 sites for Caturidae, 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

63 references

Each of the 101 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. 51 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 Caturidae

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 Caturidae 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Owen 1860