Chaetodipterus
Chaetodipterus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Ephippidae, the spadefishes. These fishes are found in the Atlantic and eastern Pacific Oceans.
Matthew Hoelscher (original photograph), Kaldari (crop), Papa Lima Whiskey (white balance adjustments) · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
- EphippidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At least 35 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 774 ka.
2 occurrences of Chaetodipterus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
2 occurrences- Eocene50%
- Pleistocene50%
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
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The named rock units Chaetodipterus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Chaetodipterus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Chaetodipterus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
153 taxa- Aetobatus narinari1 site
- Agkistrodon piscivorous1 site
- Alligator mississippiensis1 site
- Anabernicula gracilenta1 site
- Anas crecca1 site
- Anas platyrhynchos1 site
- Anguilla1 site
- Apalone ferox1 site
- Aquila1 site
- Archosargus probatocephalus1 site
- Arctodus pristinus1 site
- Ardea alba1 site
- Arius1 site
- Atractosteus spatula1 site
- Aythya affinis1 site
- Aythya americana1 site
- Aythya collaris1 site
- Aythya marila1 site
- Bagre marinus1 site
- Bairdiella1 site
- Balistes1 site
- Branta canadensis1 site
- Branta dickeyi1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Chaetodipterus, 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- Fossil associations from the middle and upper Eocene strata of the Pamplona Basin and surrounding areas (Navarre, western Pyrenees)1
- Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes from the early Pleistocene Leisey Shell Pit local fauna, Hillsborough County, Florida1
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 Chaetodipterus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Matthew Hoelscher (original photograph), Kaldari (crop), Papa Lima Whiskey (white balance adjustments)
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Chaetodipterus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itEphippidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lacepede 1802