Estesesox
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EsocidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Esocidae
Time the record covers
At least 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 63.4 Mya.
64 occurrences of Estesesox 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
64 occurrencesThese 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
11 formations
- Oldman Formation · Belly River Group17
- Dinosaur Park Formation · Belly River Group15
- Hell Creek Formation · Montana Group13
- Foremost Formation · Belly River Group4
- Milk River Formation4
- Fort Union Formation3
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The named rock units Estesesox has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Estesesox and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Estesesox and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
400 taxa- Teleostei48 sites
- Scapherpeton tectum40 sites
- Opisthotriton kayi39 sites
- Anura35 sites
- Hadrosauridae33 sites
- Trionychidae33 sites
- Ceratopsidae32 sites
- Chelydridae32 sites
- Myledaphus bipartitus32 sites
- Baenidae31 sites
- Lepisosteus occidentalis29 sites
- Amiidae28 sites
- Coriops amnicolus28 sites
- Holostei28 sites
- Multituberculata28 sites
- Saurornitholestes langstoni27 sites
- Paralbula casei25 sites
- Champsosaurus24 sites
- Paronychodon24 sites
- Tyrannosauridae23 sites
- Crocodylia22 sites
- Acanthomorphata21 sites
- Richardoestesia gilmorei21 sites
- Aves20 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 61 sites for Estesesox, 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
11 references- Vertebrate microsite assemblages (exclusive of mammals) from the Foremost and Oldman Formations of the Judith River Group (Campanian) of southeastern Alberta: an illustrated guide18
- Cretaceous Esocoidei (Teleostei): early radiation of the pikes in North American fresh waters17
- A systematic reappraisal and quantitative study of the nonmarine teleost fishes from the late Maastrichtian of the Western Interior of North America: evidence from vertebrate microfossil localities8
- Paleoecology of an estuarine, incised-valley fill in the Dinosaur Park Formation (Judith River Group, Upper Cretaceous) of southern Alberta, Canada7
- Non-marine fishes of the late Santonian Milk River Formation of Alberta, Canada – evidence from vertebrate microfossil localities4
- Moderate extinctions and slow recovery of non-marine teleost fishes across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary, with a systematic appraisal of early Paleocene teleost fishes from Saskatchewan, Canada and Montana, USA3
- Fish & Reptiles of the Rebecca’s Hollow Site, Williams Fork Formation, Late Cretaceous (Edmontonian), Colorado & ‘Between The Dinosaurs’ Toes’: Approaches to Exhibiting Microvertebrate Fossils in Museum Displays (With Emphasis on the Cretaceous Period)2
- Freshwater Osteichthyes from the Cenomanian to late Campanian of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah2
- Diversity and paleoecology of actinopterygian fish from vertebrate microfossil localities of the Maastrichtian Hell Creek Formation of Montana1
- Faunal assemblages from the upper Horseshoe Canyon Formation, an early Maastrichtian cool-climate assemblage from Alberta, with special reference to the Albertosaurus sarcophagus bonebed1
- Taxonomic studies of Triassic radiolaria from Busuanga Island, Philippines1
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. 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
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No picture of Estesesox was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Estesesox, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Estesesox 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itEsocidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wilson et al. 1992