Pappichthys

Pappichthys

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
AmiidaePBDB
Diet
carnivore, piscivorePBDB, for Amiiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Amiiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Amiiformes

Time the record covers

At least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 3 occurrencesEocene73–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66 Mya41.03 Mya72.9 Mya37 Mya

3 occurrences of Pappichthys on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

3 formations

Frenchman — 49.04°N, 106.60°WSarmiento — 45.67°S, 68.67°WUinta — 40.20°N, 109.90°W

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The named rock units Pappichthys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Pappichthys and its relatives

Eocene

Where Pappichthys and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

164 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pappichthys, 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

3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Pappichthys

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pappichthys 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 itAmiidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.