Cichliformes

Cichliformes is an order of ray-finned fish. Its members were previously classified under the order Perciformes, but now many authorities consider it to be an independent order within the subseries Ovalentaria. The earliest fossils are known from the Eocene.

Cichliformes

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CichlomorphaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 73 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 73 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 7 of 73 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 73 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 25 of 73 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 16 of 73 occurrencesPleistocene — about 19 of 73 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–49 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–39 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 8 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.8–7.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.4–4.9 Mya — about 6 occurrences4.9–2.5 Mya — about 15 occurrences2.5–0 Mya — about 19 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka74 Mya0 Mya

73 occurrences of Cichliformes on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

73 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

27 formations

Nkondo — 1.50°N, 31.00°EKoobi Fora — 4.31°N, 36.28°EKoobi Fora — 4.28°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 4.06°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 3.59°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 4.07°N, 36.37°EPebas — 3.74°S, 73.25°WNachukui — 4.27°N, 35.82°ENachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EWembere-Manonga — 3.88°S, 33.72°EWembere-Manonga — 3.88°S, 33.97°EWembere-Manonga — 3.98°S, 33.96°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 35.37°EOlduvai — 2.99°S, 35.33°EShungura — 5.08°N, 36.03°ENyabusosi — 1.00°N, 30.50°EWarwire — 1.50°N, 31.00°ENgorora — 0.90°N, 35.85°EOlorgesailie — 1.57°S, 36.43°EMaboko — 0.17°N, 34.62°ELumbrera — 25.27°S, 65.82°WLukeino — 0.50°N, 35.67°ELusso Beds — 0.03°N, 29.62°EKakara — 1.00°N, 30.50°EGreen River — 41.77°N, 110.75°WRoslyn — 47.25°N, 121.12°WWare — 11.85°N, 71.32°WLokone Sandstone — 2.22°N, 35.57°EChambira — 7.32°S, 74.93°WAshawaq — 17.00°N, 53.00°EVillavieja — 3.22°N, 75.14°WSan Gregorio — 11.30°N, 70.24°W

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The named rock units Cichliformes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cichliformes and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cichliformes and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

875 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 70 sites for Cichliformes, 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

51 references

Each of the 73 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. 39 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 Cichliformes

Credit
User:Haplochromis
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cichliformes 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

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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.