Cyprinodontiformes

Cyprinodontiformes is an order of ray-finned fish, comprising mostly small, freshwater fish. Many popular aquarium fish, such as killifish and live-bearers, are included. They are closely related to the Atheriniformes and are occasionally included with them. A colloquial term for the order as a whole is toothcarps, though they are not actually close relatives of the true carps – the latter belong to the superorder Ostariophysi, while the toothcarps are Acanthopterygii.

Cyprinodontiformes

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AtherinomorphaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB
Life habit
nektonicPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB

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 64 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 64 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 3 of 64 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 64 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 40 of 64 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 64 occurrencesPleistocene — about 10 of 64 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–56 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–32 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–22 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.8–7.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.4–4.9 Mya — about 33 occurrences4.9–2.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.5–0 Mya — about 10 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka74 Mya0 Mya

64 occurrences of Cyprinodontiformes 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

64 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

16 formations

Bermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WOgallala — 39.08°N, 99.75°WOgallala — 38.90°N, 101.70°WTitus Canyon — 36.66°N, 116.84°WSorbas — 37.09°N, 2.09°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EEl Molino — 17.69°S, 65.94°WRunningwater — 42.49°N, 102.96°WKuldana — 33.62°N, 71.92°EFort Thompson — 27.80°N, 82.80°WAsh Hollow — 42.39°N, 98.13°WMaíz Gordo — 24.20°S, 64.30°WLabontan beds — 34.77°N, 118.69°WYesares — 37.08°N, 2.09°WColombacci — 44.22°N, 11.77°ESan Jose — 36.79°S, 66.02°WAtotonilco el Grande — 20.30°N, 98.76°W

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The named rock units Cyprinodontiformes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 40 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cyprinodontiformes and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cyprinodontiformes and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

763 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Cyprinodontiformes, 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

31 references

Each of the 64 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. 19 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 Cyprinodontiformes

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NOAA
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cyprinodontiformes 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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CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Bertin 1958