Elopopsis

Elopopsis is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish that lived during the Late Cretaceous of Europe, North Africa and North America. It was a member of the Crossognathiformes, in the family Pachyrhizodontidae.

Elopopsis

Fort Hays Sternberg Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
PachyrhizodontidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Crossognathiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Crossognathiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Crossognathiformes

Time the record covers

At least 4.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 89.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 85.7 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 12 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 12 of 12 occurrencesLate Cretaceous101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences98–98 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences95–95 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93.9 Mya89.8 Mya101 Mya85.2 Mya

12 occurrences of Elopopsis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

12 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

9 formations

Greenhorn Limestone — 37.69°N, 103.94°WGreenhorn Limestone — 37.46°N, 103.05°WBelle Fourche — 53.21°N, 103.52°WAshville — 53.48°N, 102.24°WGraneros Shale — 40.01°N, 97.17°WPovir — 45.82°N, 13.75°ELower Chalk — 52.18°N, 0.17°EZig Zag Chalk — 53.68°N, 0.50°WHolleywell, New Pit, Lewes — 51.30°N, 0.39°EKomen Limestone — 45.82°N, 13.74°E

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The named rock units Elopopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Elopopsis and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

164 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Elopopsis, 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

9 references

Each of the 12 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 Elopopsis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Fort Hays Sternberg Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itPachyrhizodontidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.