Furo

Furo is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish, belonging to the order Ophiopsiformes or Ionoscopiformes, known from the Early Jurassic of England and Italy. Other species from throughout Europe, from the Late Triassic to Late Jurassic, have been previously placed in this genus.

Furo

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FuridaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 130 million years on record.

The record covers at least 243.43 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 244.4 Mya to 106.3 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 29 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 29 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 29 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 17 of 29 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 29 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 7 of 29 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 29 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous247–242 Mya — about 1 occurrence242–238 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences238–233 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences218–214 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences214–209 Mya — about 1 occurrence204–199 Mya — about 3 occurrences199–195 Mya — about 10 occurrences195–190 Mya — about 3 occurrences185–180 Mya — about 1 occurrence156–151 Mya — about 1 occurrence151–147 Mya — about 5 occurrences147–142 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences118–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–108 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences243.43 Mya113.2 Mya247 Mya104 Mya

29 occurrences of Furo on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

29 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

Liegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°ESolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°ESolnhofen — 48.90°N, 11.18°ELombardische Kieselkalk — 46.00°N, 9.08°EAlamyshik — 40.00°N, 73.00°ESeefelder — 47.32°N, 11.22°EPerledo-Varenna — 46.02°N, 9.30°EDolomia Principale — 40.72°N, 14.95°EStrelovec — 46.33°N, 14.59°E

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The named rock units Furo has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Furo and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Furo and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

290 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Furo, 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

12 references

Each of the 29 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 Furo

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Furo 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 itFuridae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

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