Cionichthys

Cionichthys is an extinct genus of freshwater ray-finned fish that inhabited southwestern and eastern North America during the Late Triassic period. It was a member of the Redfieldiiformes, an order of fishes widespread throughout freshwater habitats at this time, especially in North America.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RedfieldiidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 14 of 14 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 14 occurrences238–236 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences232–230 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences227–225 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences225–224 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences223–222 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences222–220 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences220–219 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences218–217 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences217–215 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences215–214 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences212–211 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences211–209 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences209–208 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences208–207 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences206–204 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences204–203 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences203–202 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences227.3 Mya205.7 Mya237.7 Mya200.7 Mya

14 occurrences of Cionichthys on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

14 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

8 formations

Chinle — 34.44°N, 109.46°WChinle — 38.17°N, 109.23°WChinle — 38.13°N, 109.18°WChinle — 38.28°N, 108.90°WLithofacies Association II — 35.87°N, 78.90°WRedonda — 35.00°N, 103.67°WCow Branch — 36.54°N, 79.67°WColorado City — 32.16°N, 100.25°WLockatong — 40.77°N, 74.02°WTuckahoe — 37.60°N, 77.72°WCumnock — 35.56°N, 79.29°W

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The named rock units Cionichthys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cionichthys and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Cionichthys and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

151 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Cionichthys, 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

9 references

Each of the 14 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

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No picture of Cionichthys was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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

No 3D scan of Cionichthys 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 itRedfieldiidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schaeffer 1967