Ctenognathichthys

Ctenognathichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the Middle Triassic epoch of Europe, in the former Tethys Ocean.

Ctenognathichthys

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
LouwoichthyidaePBDB
Diet
durophagePBDB
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 3.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 243.43 Mya to 239.48 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 244.4 Mya to 237 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 15 of 15 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 0 of 15 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 1 occurrence243–243 Mya — about 1 occurrence243–242 Mya — about 1 occurrence242–242 Mya — about 1 occurrence242–242 Mya — about 1 occurrence242–242 Mya — about 1 occurrence242–241 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243.43 Mya239.48 Mya244.9 Mya236.5 Mya

15 occurrences of Ctenognathichthys on record, most of them in the Middle 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

15 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

5 formations

Besano — 45.91°N, 8.95°EBesano — 45.90°N, 8.96°EProsanto — 46.75°N, 9.72°EPerledo-Varenna — 46.02°N, 9.30°EStrelovec — 46.33°N, 14.59°EBesano — 45.89°N, 8.90°E

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The named rock units Ctenognathichthys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ctenognathichthys and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Ctenognathichthys and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

102 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Ctenognathichthys, 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

7 references

Each of the 15 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 Ctenognathichthys

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ctenognathichthys was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itLouwoichthyidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bürgin 1992