Osteoglossomorpha

Osteoglossomorpha is a superorder of bony fish in the Teleostei.

Osteoglossomorpha

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 165 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 274 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 274 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 42 of 274 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 95 of 274 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 23 of 274 occurrencesEocene — about 48 of 274 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 274 occurrencesMiocene — about 24 of 274 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 13 of 274 occurrencesPleistocene — about 14 of 274 occurrences172–166 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences166–160 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences149–143 Mya — about 2 occurrences143–137 Mya — about 6 occurrences137–132 Mya — about 5 occurrences132–126 Mya — about 5 occurrences126–120 Mya — about 16 occurrences120–114 Mya — about 7 occurrences114–109 Mya — about 2 occurrences109–103 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences103–97 Mya — about 5 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 5 occurrences92–86 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences86–80 Mya — about 13 occurrences80–74 Mya — about 7 occurrences74–69 Mya — about 38 occurrences69–63 Mya — about 38 occurrences63–57 Mya — about 8 occurrences57–51 Mya — about 20 occurrences51–46 Mya — about 14 occurrences46–40 Mya — about 11 occurrences40–34 Mya — about 5 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–11 Mya — about 9 occurrences11–5.7 Mya — about 10 occurrences5.7–0 Mya — about 35 occurrences165.3 Mya11.7 ka172 Mya0 Mya

274 occurrences of Osteoglossomorpha on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

274 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

88 formations

Hell Creek — 47.60°N, 106.92°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.40°WHell Creek — 47.27°N, 107.13°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 107.18°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 107.00°WKoobi Fora — 3.78°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 3.59°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.90°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 4.07°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 3.89°N, 36.29°EKoobi Fora — 3.75°N, 36.36°EKoobi Fora — 4.06°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 3.91°N, 36.38°EKoobi Fora — 4.15°N, 36.40°EGreen River — 41.77°N, 110.75°WGreen River — 41.87°N, 110.68°WGreen River — 41.48°N, 109.47°WGreen River — 42.37°N, 110.62°WGreen River — 41.78°N, 110.73°WYixian — 42.06°N, 121.75°EYixian — 41.60°N, 120.87°EYixian — 41.57°N, 119.33°EYixian — 41.47°N, 121.19°EYixian — 41.16°N, 119.31°EYixian — 40.00°N, 116.67°EYixian — 40.95°N, 124.65°EYixian — 41.42°N, 118.97°EYixian — 41.25°N, 119.25°EMilk River — 49.10°N, 111.80°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.51°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.40°WDinosaur Park — 50.81°N, 111.63°WDinosaur Park — 50.78°N, 111.33°WDinosaur Park — 50.68°N, 108.09°WNkondo — 1.50°N, 31.00°EFort Union — 46.91°N, 101.44°WFort Union — 47.60°N, 107.00°WFirst — 33.82°N, 130.87°ENachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EPaskapoo — 52.27°N, 113.59°WPaskapoo — 54.33°N, 118.75°WPaskapoo — 51.17°N, 114.04°WThird — 33.83°N, 130.85°EScollard — 51.95°N, 112.94°WScollard — 51.91°N, 112.97°WPebas — 3.74°S, 73.25°WJiufotang — 41.81°N, 121.99°EJiufotang — 41.25°N, 120.03°EJiufotang — 40.81°N, 119.80°EJiufotang — 40.65°N, 119.68°ELance — 43.15°N, 104.57°WNyaburogo — 1.00°N, 30.50°EKsar Metlili — 32.70°N, 3.22°WLondon Clay — 51.39°N, 0.84°ELondon Clay — 51.48°N, 0.25°EShungura — 5.08°N, 36.03°ENawata — 2.90°N, 36.05°ENawata or Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EKakara — 1.00°N, 30.50°EMengyin — 35.87°N, 117.95°E

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The named rock units Osteoglossomorpha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 64 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 48 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Osteoglossomorpha and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

2,782 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 199 sites for Osteoglossomorpha, 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

137 references

Each of the 274 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. 125 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 Osteoglossomorpha

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Cliff
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Osteoglossomorpha 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

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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 itTeleostei through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Greenwood et al. 1966)