Cypriniformes

Cypriniformes is an order of ray-finned fish which contains many sister families and genera of cypriniform fish split into several suborders, including the barbs, loaches, botias, carps, danionins, and minnows, amongst others. Cypriniformes is an "order-within-an-order", placed under the superorder Ostariophysi—which is also made up of cyprinid, ostariophysin fishes. The order contains 11–12 families, over 400 genera, and more than 4,250 named species; new species are regularly described, and new genera are recognized frequently. Cyprinids are most diverse in South and Southeast Asia and are entirely absent from Australia and South America. At 112 years old, the longest-lived cypriniform fish documented is the bigmouth buffalo.

Cypriniformes

Franky44 at Dutch Wikipedia · 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
Also called
carp-like fishPBDB
Sits inside
OtophysaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB
Life habit
nektonicPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Environment
freshwaterPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 143 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 2 of 400 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 400 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 7 of 400 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 400 occurrencesEocene — about 28 of 400 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 31 of 400 occurrencesMiocene — about 113 of 400 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 90 of 400 occurrencesPleistocene — about 113 of 400 occurrences152–147 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences147–142 Mya — about 2 occurrences142–137 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences137–132 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences132–127 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences107–101 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences101–96 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences91–86 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences81–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–46 Mya — about 5 occurrences46–41 Mya — about 6 occurrences41–36 Mya — about 10 occurrences36–30 Mya — about 10 occurrences30–25 Mya — about 14 occurrences25–20 Mya — about 21 occurrences20–15 Mya — about 23 occurrences15–10 Mya — about 48 occurrences10–5.1 Mya — about 39 occurrences5.1–0 Mya — about 211 occurrences143.1 Mya11.7 ka152 Mya0 Mya

400 occurrences of Cypriniformes 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

400 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

83 formations

Koobi Fora — 3.59°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.90°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.98°N, 36.32°EKoobi Fora — 4.07°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 3.87°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 3.89°N, 36.29°EKoobi Fora — 3.70°N, 36.32°EKoobi Fora — 4.31°N, 36.28°EKoobi Fora — 4.31°N, 36.22°EKoobi Fora — 4.09°N, 36.31°EKoobi Fora — 4.15°N, 36.40°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 47.92°N, 10.59°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.44°N, 11.04°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.66°N, 10.23°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.63°N, 11.80°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.09°N, 10.03°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.16°N, 10.11°EAlturas — 41.49°N, 120.65°WAlturas — 40.16°N, 120.27°WNachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°ENachukui — 4.27°N, 35.82°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.88°N, 1.44°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.94°N, 1.25°ECromer Forest Bed — 51.64°N, 0.80°ERhin Chua — 21.84°N, 106.08°EYalakdere — 40.61°N, 29.25°ELower Freshwater Molasse — 46.88°N, 7.11°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°ELukeino — 0.50°N, 35.67°EKuyal'nikian — 46.46°N, 30.73°EChersonian — 47.25°N, 28.69°EGreen River — 41.61°N, 109.39°WGreen River — 42.07°N, 110.09°WGreen River — 41.63°N, 109.50°WPrince Creek — 70.02°N, 151.59°WPrince Creek — 70.09°N, 151.54°WShungura — 5.08°N, 36.03°EShanwang — 36.52°N, 118.54°EVille — 50.90°N, 6.45°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WKap Leslie — 70.48°N, 21.97°WNgorora — 0.90°N, 35.85°ENkondo — 1.50°N, 31.00°ENyabusosi/Rwebeshingo — 1.00°N, 30.50°EOgallala — 39.08°N, 99.75°WLatamne — 35.13°N, 36.75°E

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The named rock units Cypriniformes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 59 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 211 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cypriniformes and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cypriniformes and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,191 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 254 sites for Cypriniformes, and this reads 240 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

170 references

Each of the 400 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. 158 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 content3

Picture of Cypriniformes

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Franky44 at Dutch Wikipedia
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Synchrotron Imaging scan

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Specimen
Cypriniformes indet. · UAM:ES:52353

3D model

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Sketchfab
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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. Bleeker 1859