Caturus

Caturus is an extinct genus of predatory marine fishes in the family Caturidae in the order Amiiformes, related to modern bowfin. It has been suggested that the genus is non-monophyletic with respect to other caturid genera.

Caturus

Nobu Tamura ( http://spinops.blogspot.com ) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
CaturidaePBDB
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 75 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 75 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 3 of 75 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 75 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 16 of 75 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 4 of 75 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 27 of 75 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 18 of 75 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 75 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 75 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 14 occurrences147–141 Mya — about 11 occurrences141–134 Mya — about 2 occurrences134–127 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences127–121 Mya — about 6 occurrences121–114 Mya — about 3 occurrences114–108 Mya — about 2 occurrences108–101 Mya — about 2 occurrences101–95 Mya — about 3 occurrences95–88 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences75–69 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences69–62 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences251.902 Mya72.2 Mya258 Mya62 Mya

75 occurrences of Caturus on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

75 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

30 formations

Solnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°ESolnhofen — 48.90°N, 11.18°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°EDockum — 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°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°WSainte-Barbe Clays — 50.48°N, 3.65°EBeacon Limstone — 50.93°N, 2.91°WKössen — 47.13°N, 9.85°EAtherfield Clay — 50.62°N, 1.34°WWoburn Sands — 52.03°N, 0.40°W

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The named rock units Caturus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Caturus and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

772 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Caturus, 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

42 references

Each of the 75 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. 30 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 content2

Picture of Caturus

Credit
Nobu Tamura ( http://spinops.blogspot.com )
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itCaturidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1834