Notopterus

Notopterus is a genus of fishes in family Notopteridae found in South Asia:Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh and Southeast Asia: Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.

Notopterus

Xufanc · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
NotopteridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Osteoglossiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Osteoglossiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteoglossiformes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Osteoglossiformes

Time the record covers

At most 6.2 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 1 occurrence72–72 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences71–71 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences71–71 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences71–71 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences72.7 Mya65.5 Mya

1 occurrence of Notopterus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

1 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.

Notopterus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

33 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Notopterus, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Notopterus

Credit
Xufanc
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Notopterus notopterus · TCWC:Ichthyology:16146.06

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itNotopteridae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lacepede 1800