Ictaluridae

The Ictaluridae, sometimes called ictalurids, are a family of catfish native to North America, where they are an important food source and sometimes fished for sport. The family includes about 51 species, some commonly known as bullheads, madtoms, channel catfish, and blue catfish.

Ictaluridae

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
Also called
catfishPBDB
Sits inside
SiluroideiPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Siluriformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Siluriformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Siluriformes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Siluriformes

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 55 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 55 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 4 of 55 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 55 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 24 of 55 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 55 occurrencesPleistocene — about 17 of 55 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–20 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 9 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 6 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 22 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

55 occurrences of Ictaluridae on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

55 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

21 formations

Valentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WValentine — 42.79°N, 100.07°WValentine — 42.49°N, 98.11°WOgallala — 39.08°N, 99.75°WKingsdown — 37.04°N, 100.50°WFort Randall — 43.49°N, 99.27°WGoliad — 28.60°N, 97.70°WGoliad — 28.34°N, 97.96°WFleming — 31.00°N, 93.40°WTamiami — 27.78°N, 82.68°WVerde — 34.77°N, 112.05°WWashakie — 40.60°N, 108.10°W"Brian Head" — 37.80°N, 111.50°WAlachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WCrooked Creek — 37.20°N, 100.30°WFort Thompson — 27.80°N, 82.80°WTurtle Butte — 43.07°N, 99.83°WOakville — 30.75°N, 95.22°WShuler — 32.71°N, 96.71°WKuldana — 33.63°N, 72.17°ESt. Marys — 38.32°N, 76.43°WSanta Lucía — 18.03°S, 65.58°WBridger — 42.11°N, 109.45°W

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The named rock units Ictaluridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ictaluridae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Ictaluridae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,227 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Ictaluridae, 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

44 references

Each of the 55 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. 32 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 Ictaluridae

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

No 3D scan of Ictaluridae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gill 1861