Euteleostei

Euteleostei, whose members are known as euteleosts, is a clade of bony fishes within Teleostei. The oldest known fossil remains are only from the Early Cretaceous. It is divided into Protacanthopterygii and Neoteleostei.

Euteleostei

Duane Raver, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service · Public Domain · 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
ClupeocephalaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 60 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 26 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 24 of 26 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 26 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 26 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 26 occurrencesOligocene115–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences106–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 1 occurrence97–94 Mya — about 1 occurrence94–91 Mya — about 3 occurrences91–88 Mya — about 2 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 4 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 7 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 3 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93.9 Mya33.9 Mya115 Mya26 Mya

26 occurrences of Euteleostei on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

26 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

8 formations

Hell Creek — 47.27°N, 107.13°WHell Creek — 47.62°N, 106.90°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 107.18°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.40°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 106.28°WStraight Cliffs — 37.60°N, 111.97°WStraight Cliffs — 37.62°N, 112.16°WPortezuelo — 38.45°S, 68.72°WScaglia Variegata Alpina — 45.28°N, 11.65°EEl Doctor — 20.75°N, 99.34°WNaturita — 37.80°N, 111.50°WKaiparowits — 37.42°N, 111.77°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.57°W

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The named rock units Euteleostei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Euteleostei and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

395 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Euteleostei, 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

Each of the 26 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 Euteleostei

Credit
Duane Raver, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Euteleostei 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

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 itClupeocephala through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rosen 1973