Paralbula casei

Paralbula casei

Fort Hays Sternberg 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
ParalbulaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Elopiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Elopiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Elopiformes

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 86 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 85 of 86 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 86 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 86 occurrencesEocene102–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence83–82 Mya — about 11 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 11 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 11 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 11 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 11 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 11 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 6 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 5 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 5 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 3 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93.9 Mya56 Mya102 Mya47 Mya

86 occurrences of Paralbula casei 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

86 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

24 formations

Dinosaur Park — 50.81°N, 111.32°WDinosaur Park — 49.12°N, 110.47°WDinosaur Park — 50.74°N, 111.49°WDinosaur Park — 50.79°N, 111.62°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.46°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.40°WOldman — 50.75°N, 111.51°WOldman — 49.10°N, 110.94°WOldman — 49.08°N, 110.84°WOldman — 49.08°N, 110.68°WOldman — 49.16°N, 110.72°WOldman — 50.83°N, 111.32°WOldman — 49.15°N, 110.40°WFox Hills — 46.05°N, 103.88°WFox Hills — 46.47°N, 99.58°WFox Hills — 46.11°N, 103.90°WFox Hills — 44.52°N, 102.39°WFruitland — 36.49°N, 108.49°WFruitland — 36.27°N, 108.26°WForemost — 50.07°N, 111.14°WForemost — 49.13°N, 110.87°WMarshalltown — 40.30°N, 74.30°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WTar Heel — 34.57°N, 78.50°WTar Heel — 34.61°N, 78.60°WNavesink — 40.35°N, 74.18°WNavesink — 40.38°N, 74.21°WWilliams Fork — 40.03°N, 108.85°WWilliams Fork — 39.93°N, 108.82°WHell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WBlufftown — 32.16°N, 85.03°WSt. Mary River — 49.91°N, 112.99°WMount Laurel — 40.26°N, 74.27°WCusseta — 32.14°N, 84.95°WFerris — 41.93°N, 106.89°WDonoho Creek — 34.06°N, 79.53°WHornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.13°WLa Cabaña — 43.34°N, 5.84°WSevern — 38.96°N, 76.71°WLondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.68°WRybushka — 51.23°N, 45.10°EAguja — 29.46°N, 103.56°WArkadelphia — 34.38°N, 92.85°WDemopolis — 34.58°N, 88.63°W

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

Paralbula casei and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Paralbula casei and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

622 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 85 sites for Paralbula casei, 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

32 references

Each of the 86 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. 20 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 Paralbula casei

Source
GBIF
Credit
Fort Hays Sternberg Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Estes 1969