Phyllodontidae

Paralbula casei Estes, 1969, a relative of Phyllodontidae — not Phyllodontidae itself

Not Phyllodontidae. This is Paralbula casei Estes, 1969, a relative — both are Phyllodontidae.

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
ElopiformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Elopiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Elopiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Elopiformes

Time the record covers

At least 77 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 16.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 12.5 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 212 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 148 of 212 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 8 of 212 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 53 of 212 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 212 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 212 occurrencesMiocene102–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–81 Mya — about 25 occurrences81–78 Mya — about 28 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 28 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 27 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 20 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 18 occurrences66–63 Mya — about 3 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 1 occurrence60–57 Mya — about 3 occurrences57–53 Mya — about 9 occurrences53–50 Mya — about 10 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 10 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 7 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 8 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 6 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 3 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93.9 Mya16.3 Mya102 Mya11 Mya

212 occurrences of Phyllodontidae 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

212 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

69 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°WDinosaur Park — 50.68°N, 108.09°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°WTallahatta — 31.38°N, 86.67°WTallahatta — 31.31°N, 88.73°WTallahatta — 31.79°N, 88.32°WTallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°WAguja — 29.32°N, 103.52°WAguja — 29.10°N, 103.17°WAguja — 29.30°N, 103.57°WAguja — 29.46°N, 103.56°WForemost — 50.07°N, 111.14°WForemost — 49.13°N, 110.87°WFruitland — 36.49°N, 108.49°WFruitland — 36.27°N, 108.26°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WLondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.68°WJudith River — 47.81°N, 109.59°WJudith River — 46.47°N, 109.30°WJudith River — 46.46°N, 109.41°WJudith River — 46.10°N, 109.10°WMarnes de Lestaillats — 43.17°N, 1.01°EMarnes de Lestaillats — 43.15°N, 1.04°EHornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.13°WConques — 42.09°N, 1.00°EConques — 42.09°N, 0.69°EMarshalltown — 40.30°N, 74.30°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WNanjemoy — 38.28°N, 77.37°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.59°N, 88.02°WEarnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°WHell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WHell Creek — 47.09°N, 104.60°WLisbon — 31.36°N, 86.52°WTar Heel — 34.57°N, 78.50°WTar Heel — 34.61°N, 78.60°WFerris — 41.94°N, 106.88°WTuscahoma — 32.40°N, 88.69°WSevern — 38.96°N, 76.71°WShark River — 40.20°N, 74.17°W

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The named rock units Phyllodontidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 45 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phyllodontidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

2,085 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 175 sites for Phyllodontidae, 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

92 references

Each of the 212 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. 80 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 Estes, 1969

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

No 3D scan of Phyllodontidae 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 itElopiformes through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sauvage 1875