Osteoglossum

Osteoglossum is a genus of fish in the family Osteoglossidae. They reach about 1 m (3.3 ft) in length and are restricted to freshwater habitats in tropical South America.

Osteoglossum

User:Qwertzy2 · 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
OsteoglossidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Osteoglossiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Osteoglossiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteoglossiformes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Osteoglossiformes

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 41.03 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 3 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesEocene73–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66 Mya48.07 Mya72.8 Mya40.4 Mya

3 occurrences of Osteoglossum on record. 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

3 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

1 formation

Takli — 21.15°N, 79.10°E

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The named rock units Osteoglossum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

101 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Osteoglossum, 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

2 references

Each of the 3 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. 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 Osteoglossum

Credit
User:Qwertzy2
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Osteoglossum bicirrhossum · TCWC:Ichthyology:16694.09

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itOsteoglossidae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cuvier 1829