Neobythitinae

Neobythitinae

Uncredited · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
OphidiidaePBDB
Diet
carnivore, parasitePBDB, for Ophidiiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Ophidiiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ophidiiformes

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 774 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 42 occurrencesEocene — about 34 of 42 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 42 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 42 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 42 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 42 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 5 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 5 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 5 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 4 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence48.07 Mya2.58 Mya57 Mya0 Mya

42 occurrences of Neobythitinae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

42 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

18 formations

Miretrain Marl — 43.56°N, 1.11°WDonzacq Marl — 43.75°N, 0.84°WLindos Bay — 36.26°N, 28.17°ELindos Bay — 36.36°N, 28.21°EBells Creek Mudstone — 41.34°S, 175.46°EWaihao Greensand — 44.80°S, 170.98°ECook Mountain — 30.61°N, 96.57°WCook Mountain — 31.33°N, 95.52°WElmore — 50.80°N, 1.21°WRosefield — 31.89°N, 92.00°WYazoo — 31.93°N, 91.94°WEger — 47.90°N, 20.40°ENanggulan — 7.73°S, 110.18°EBells Creek Limestone — 41.33°S, 175.48°EKosciusko — 32.02°N, 88.71°W“upper” Lisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WBashi — 31.93°N, 87.87°WHatchetigbee — 31.65°N, 88.09°WNanjemoy — 37.75°N, 77.33°WReklaw — 30.00°N, 97.25°W

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The named rock units Neobythitinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Neobythitinae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Neobythitinae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

607 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Neobythitinae, 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

14 references

Each of the 42 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. 2 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 Neobythitinae

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

No 3D scan of Neobythitinae 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.

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. Radcliffe 1913