Gonorynchiformes

The Gonorynchiformes are an order of ray-finned fish that includes the important food source, the milkfish, and a number of lesser-known types, both marine and freshwater.

Gonorynchiformes

Bryan Harry (U.S. National Park 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
AnotophysaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
nektonicPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Environment
freshwaterPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 98 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 14 of 48 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 17 of 48 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 8 of 48 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 48 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 48 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 48 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 48 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 1 occurrence120–116 Mya — about 7 occurrences116–111 Mya — about 5 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 1 occurrence99–95 Mya — about 4 occurrences95–91 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences91–86 Mya — about 1 occurrence86–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–78 Mya — about 1 occurrence78–74 Mya — about 1 occurrence74–70 Mya — about 3 occurrences70–66 Mya — about 5 occurrences66–61 Mya — about 6 occurrences57–53 Mya — about 2 occurrences53–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121.4 Mya23.04 Mya128 Mya3 Mya

48 occurrences of Gonorynchiformes 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

48 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

19 formations

Romualdo — 7.52°S, 39.57°WRomualdo — 7.51°S, 39.55°WRomualdo — 7.47°S, 39.76°WRomualdo — 7.43°S, 39.82°WRomualdo — 7.22°S, 39.27°WFort Union — 47.60°N, 107.00°WFort Union — 47.58°N, 107.05°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 106.92°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.40°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 107.00°WTwo Medicine — 48.63°N, 113.75°WBet Meir or Amminadav — 31.95°N, 35.26°ECrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WCrato — 7.00°S, 40.00°WCalcari di Monte San Michele — 45.93°N, 13.62°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°ELa Huérguina — 40.06°N, 1.88°WCabo — 8.58°S, 35.12°WGreen River — 41.77°N, 110.75°WSierra Madre — 16.68°N, 93.46°WCodo — 4.00°S, 43.00°WDanata — 38.61°N, 56.88°ECintalapa — 16.57°N, 93.27°WWasatch — 41.53°N, 108.56°WBaumberge — 51.96°N, 7.36°ELance — 43.15°N, 104.57°WRavenscrag — 49.60°N, 108.70°W

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The named rock units Gonorynchiformes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gonorynchiformes and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

718 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Gonorynchiformes, 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

28 references

Each of the 48 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. 16 further references are not listed. 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 Gonorynchiformes

Credit
Bryan Harry (U.S. National Park Service)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Gonorynchiformes 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.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.