Palaeorhynchus

Palaeorhynchus

Uncredited · 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
PalaeorhynchidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 14 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 14 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 14 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 14 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 14 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 14 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–34 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 6 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48.07 Mya23.04 Mya146 Mya0 Mya

14 occurrences of Palaeorhynchus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

14 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

4 formations

Pshekha Horizon — 44.54°N, 41.94°EPshekha Horizon — 44.74°N, 39.81°EDabakhana Svita — 41.72°N, 44.83°EKuma Horizon — 44.74°N, 39.81°EPabdeh — 33.63°N, 46.44°E

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The named rock units Palaeorhynchus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeorhynchus and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Palaeorhynchus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

686 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Palaeorhynchus, 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

11 references

Each of the 14 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. 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 Palaeorhynchus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Palaeorhynchus 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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What may have been alongside itPalaeorhynchidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Blainville 1818