Dapalis

Dapalis is an extinct genus of prehistoric glassfish known from the Middle Eocene to the Early Miocene. It is known from both freshwater and estuarine habitats of much of mainland Europe.

Dapalis

Uncredited · 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
AmbassidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 16 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 16 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 7 of 16 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 16 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 16 occurrencesMiocene73–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–44 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–19 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66 Mya20.45 Mya73 Mya15 Mya

16 occurrences of Dapalis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

16 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

Niveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EBrackwater Molasse — 48.48°N, 10.10°ECampagne-Calavon — 43.93°N, 5.63°EDartmoor — 37.91°S, 140.64°ECalcaire Grossier — 49.31°N, 2.25°E

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The named rock units Dapalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dapalis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Dapalis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

348 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Dapalis, 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

10 references

Each of the 16 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 content2

Picture of Dapalis

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itAmbassidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gistl 1848