Clupeomorpha

Clupeomorpha is a superorder of ray-finned fish which belongs to the clade Otocephala. Represented today only by the diverse, economically-important order Clupeiformes, it was formerly even more diverse, with the extinct order Ellimmichthyiformes also known. Fossil records of this group date back to the Tithonian stage of the Late Jurassic, with the ellimmichthyiform genera Aijaichthys and Ancashichthys.

Clupeomorpha

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 74 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 51.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 124 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 32 of 124 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 72 of 124 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 8 of 124 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 12 of 124 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 124 occurrences145–141 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences141–138 Mya — about 1 occurrence138–134 Mya — about 2 occurrences134–130 Mya — about 2 occurrences130–126 Mya — about 2 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences123–119 Mya — about 2 occurrences119–115 Mya — about 2 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 7 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 7 occurrences107–104 Mya — about 4 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 7 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 24 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 15 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 3 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 4 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 3 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 3 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 7 occurrences70–66 Mya — about 8 occurrences66–62 Mya — about 7 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 6 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences43–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125.77 Mya51.1 Mya145 Mya32 Mya

124 occurrences of Clupeomorpha 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

124 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

35 formations

Green River — 41.77°N, 110.75°WGreen River — 41.87°N, 110.68°WGreen River — 41.67°N, 110.67°WGreen River — 41.78°N, 110.73°WGreen River — 42.13°N, 110.13°WGreen River — 41.63°N, 109.50°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 42.17°N, 109.42°WSannine — 34.06°N, 35.69°EEl Molino — 17.69°S, 65.94°WEl Molino — 13.96°S, 68.69°WEl Molino — 19.55°S, 65.88°WEl Molino — 21.08°S, 66.47°WEl Molino — 19.54°S, 65.82°WEl Molino — 19.28°S, 66.85°WEl Molino — 17.78°S, 63.30°WTlayúa — 18.59°N, 97.90°WYacoraite — 25.38°S, 65.95°WYacoraite — 25.88°S, 64.95°WYacoraite — 25.24°S, 65.23°WYacoraite — 25.20°S, 65.75°WYacoraite — 25.01°S, 65.88°WYacoraite — 23.32°S, 65.54°WYacoraite — 23.05°S, 65.55°WThird — 33.83°N, 130.85°EDinosaur Park — 50.68°N, 108.09°WDinosaur Park — 50.78°N, 111.36°WSierra Madre — 16.68°N, 93.46°WAkrabou — 30.51°N, 4.84°WHorseshoe Canyon — 52.00°N, 112.88°WCintalapa — 16.57°N, 93.27°WStarigrad Limestone — 43.19°N, 16.65°ENaturita — 37.80°N, 111.50°WPortezuelo — 38.45°S, 68.72°WMilk River — 49.10°N, 111.80°WPierre Shale — 38.90°N, 101.13°WBet Meir or Amminadav — 31.95°N, 35.26°EDunvegan — 54.95°N, 118.87°WVillaro — 43.12°N, 2.77°WForemost — 49.60°N, 111.00°WWasatch — 41.53°N, 108.56°WNiobrara — 43.41°N, 103.31°WSanta Lucía — 18.03°S, 65.58°WNavay — 7.87°N, 71.26°W

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The named rock units Clupeomorpha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 33 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Clupeomorpha and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

821 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 89 sites for Clupeomorpha, 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

59 references

Each of the 124 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. 47 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 Clupeomorpha

Credit
No machine-readable author provided. Uwe kils assumed (based on copyright claims).
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Clupeomorpha 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 itClupeocephala through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Greenwood et al. 1966)