Osteichthyes

Searched as Pisces indet.. The Paleobiology Database treats Osteichthyes as the accepted name.

A fish is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with a tough cranium to protect the brain, but lacking limbs with digits. Fish can be grouped into the more basal jawless fish and the more common jawed fish, the latter including all living cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as the extinct placoderms and acanthodians. In a break from the long tradition of grouping all fish into a single class (Pisces), modern phylogenetics views fish as a paraphyletic group that includes all vertebrates except tetrapods. In English, the plural of "fish" is fish when referring to individuals and fishes when referring to species.

Osteichthyes

H. Zell · 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
GnathostomataPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 399 million years on record.

The record covers at least 399.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 0 Mya.

Devonian — about 17 of 299 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 50 of 299 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 11 of 299 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 2 of 299 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 299 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 7 of 299 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 6 of 299 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 299 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 4 of 299 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 11 of 299 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 15 of 299 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 20 of 299 occurrencesEocene — about 40 of 299 occurrencesOligocene — about 6 of 299 occurrencesMiocene — about 37 of 299 occurrencesPliocene — about 17 of 299 occurrencesPleistocene — about 47 of 299 occurrences419–405 Mya — about 1 occurrence405–391 Mya — about 3 occurrences391–377 Mya — about 8 occurrences377–363 Mya — about 3 occurrences363–349 Mya — about 7 occurrences349–335 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences335–321 Mya — about 3 occurrences321–307 Mya — about 1 occurrence307–293 Mya — about 39 occurrences293–279 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences279–265 Mya — about 6 occurrences265–251 Mya — about 4 occurrences251–237 Mya — about 2 occurrences237–223 Mya — about 1 occurrence223–209 Mya — about 2 occurrences209–195 Mya — about 7 occurrences195–181 Mya — about 2 occurrences181–168 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences168–154 Mya — about 3 occurrences154–140 Mya — about 6 occurrences140–126 Mya — about 2 occurrences126–112 Mya — about 6 occurrences112–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–84 Mya — about 3 occurrences84–70 Mya — about 6 occurrences70–56 Mya — about 26 occurrences56–42 Mya — about 33 occurrences42–28 Mya — about 10 occurrences28–14 Mya — about 17 occurrences14–0 Mya — about 92 occurrences399.5 Mya11.7 ka419 Mya0 Mya

299 occurrences of Osteichthyes on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

299 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

87 formations

Graham — 33.24°N, 98.12°WSolimões — 9.42°S, 70.49°WSolimões — 9.37°S, 69.94°WSolimões — 9.27°S, 68.71°WSolimões — 10.96°S, 69.74°WSolimões — 10.95°S, 69.66°WSolimões — 10.94°S, 69.52°WSolimões — 10.93°S, 69.42°WSolimões — 10.94°S, 69.31°WSolimões — 8.32°S, 73.28°WSolimões — 8.37°S, 72.81°WSolimões — 8.99°S, 72.70°WSolimões — 9.13°S, 72.67°WSolimões — 9.16°S, 72.71°WSolimões — 9.28°S, 72.69°WSolimões — 8.97°S, 72.80°WWillwood — 44.63°N, 108.39°WWillwood — 44.63°N, 108.92°WWillwood — 44.45°N, 108.65°WWillwood — 44.56°N, 108.68°WWillwood — 44.68°N, 108.73°WWillwood — 44.67°N, 108.80°WWillwood — 44.64°N, 108.76°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.58°N, 86.74°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.08°N, 88.22°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.92°N, 87.97°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.40°N, 85.13°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.07°N, 88.03°WCorsicana Marl — 31.30°N, 96.90°WDawson Bay — 52.88°N, 101.05°WDawson Bay — 52.46°N, 100.69°WDawson Bay — 51.65°N, 99.82°WDawson Bay — 52.08°N, 99.84°WDawson Bay — 51.57°N, 99.78°WNew Albany Shale — 38.48°N, 85.75°WNew Albany Shale — 38.50°N, 85.59°WMartin — 34.75°N, 112.13°WMartin — 34.88°N, 112.35°WMartin — 34.87°N, 112.07°WBarton Clay — 51.02°N, 1.32°WSecond Abden Shale — 56.07°N, 3.17°WUinta — 40.08°N, 109.27°WEarnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°WWittering — 51.08°N, 1.17°WContinental Intercalaire — 32.87°N, 10.28°EContinental Intercalaire — 33.19°N, 10.29°ELulworth — 50.60°N, 1.97°WKoobi Fora — 4.13°N, 36.40°EKoobi Fora — 4.18°N, 36.42°ELisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.20°N, 86.17°WGarber Sandstone — 34.53°N, 98.89°WKincaid — 30.35°N, 97.35°WKincaid — 30.78°N, 96.46°WBrushy Canyon — 31.84°N, 104.86°WCherry Canyon — 31.87°N, 104.84°WBell Canyon — 31.94°N, 104.74°WBell Canyon — 31.98°N, 104.75°WSables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°EFuneral — 62.53°N, 124.77°W

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The named rock units Osteichthyes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 63 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 105 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Osteichthyes and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Osteichthyes and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

2,728 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 651 sites for Osteichthyes, and this reads 240 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

129 references

Each of the 299 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. 117 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 content2

Picture of Osteichthyes

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)