Chimaeroidea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChimaeroideiPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Chimaeriformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Chimaeriformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Chimaeriformes

Time the record covers

At least 196 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 71 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 71 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 71 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 71 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 71 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 33 of 71 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 10 of 71 occurrencesEocene — about 14 of 71 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 71 occurrencesMiocene — about 9 of 71 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 71 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 71 occurrences210–203 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences203–196 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences126–119 Mya — about 1 occurrence119–112 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences112–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–98 Mya — about 3 occurrences98–91 Mya — about 4 occurrences91–84 Mya — about 4 occurrences84–77 Mya — about 6 occurrences77–70 Mya — about 9 occurrences70–63 Mya — about 12 occurrences63–56 Mya — about 7 occurrences56–49 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences49–42 Mya — about 9 occurrences42–35 Mya — about 4 occurrences35–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–7.0 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.0–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences201.4 Mya5.333 Mya210 Mya0 Mya

71 occurrences of Chimaeroidea on record, most of them in the Late 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

71 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

31 formations

Hornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.13°WHornerstown — 40.10°N, 73.00°WHornerstown — 40.12°N, 74.55°WHornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.16°WHornerstown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WBlack Rock Sandstone — 37.99°S, 145.04°EBlack Rock Sandstone — 37.98°S, 145.05°EAshville — 53.48°N, 102.24°WElmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WMooreville Chalk — 32.96°N, 88.13°WMooreville Chalk — 32.84°N, 87.89°WRybushka — 51.24°N, 44.99°ERybushka — 51.35°N, 45.04°EWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 50.90°N, 0.01°EWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 52.04°N, 0.15°WVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WGrange Burn — 37.73°S, 141.94°EClinchfield — 32.91°N, 83.36°WPapo Seco — 38.42°N, 9.21°WShark River — 40.20°N, 74.17°WLa Cabaña — 43.34°N, 5.84°WNavesink — 39.95°N, 74.79°WMelovatka — 50.88°N, 44.74°EKamyshin — 49.32°N, 44.42°ELondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°EClayton — 34.49°N, 89.00°WAquia — 38.34°N, 77.27°WBuchak — 49.53°N, 39.07°EQuiriquina — 33.36°S, 71.68°WHaslam — 49.60°N, 124.98°W

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The named rock units Chimaeroidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chimaeroidea and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,221 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 59 sites for Chimaeroidea, 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

49 references

Each of the 71 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. 37 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 content0

No picture of Chimaeroidea was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Chimaeroidea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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.