Chanidae

Chanidae is a family of fishes which has a number of fossil genera and one monotypic extant genus which contains the milkfish.

Chanidae

Bryan Harry (U.S. National Park Service) · Public Domain · 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
GonorynchiformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Gonorynchiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Gonorynchiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gonorynchiformes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Gonorynchiformes

Time the record covers

At least 98 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 12 of 18 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 18 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 18 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 18 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 5 occurrences117–113 Mya — about 5 occurrences113–109 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences90–86 Mya — about 1 occurrence86–82 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences59–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–52 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences52–48 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–14 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences121.4 Mya23.04 Mya128 Mya14 Mya

18 occurrences of Chanidae on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

18 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

7 formations

Romualdo — 7.52°S, 39.57°WRomualdo — 7.51°S, 39.55°WRomualdo — 7.47°S, 39.76°WRomualdo — 7.43°S, 39.82°WRomualdo — 7.22°S, 39.27°WCrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WCrato — 7.00°S, 40.00°WCalcari di Monte San Michele — 45.93°N, 13.62°ELa Huérguina — 40.06°N, 1.88°WCabo — 8.58°S, 35.12°WCodo — 4.00°S, 43.00°WDanata — 38.61°N, 56.88°E

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The named rock units Chanidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chanidae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Chanidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

275 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Chanidae, 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

11 references

Each of the 18 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. 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 Chanidae

Credit
Bryan Harry (U.S. National Park Service)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Chanidae 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.

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What may have been alongside itGonorynchiformes through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.