Salmoniformes

Salmoniformes is an order of ray-finned fishes native to the temperate and subarctic Northern Hemisphere. It contains two suborders: Salmonoidei and Esocoidei. In addition, potential fossil members of the group, dating back to the Late Cretaceous, are also known from Europe and Africa. Both large-sized members of this order are important food and sport fish of the Northern Hemisphere.

Salmoniformes

Engbretson Eric, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service · Public Domain · 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
ProtacanthopterygiiPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
nektonicPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 119 million years on record.

The record covers at least 119.57 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 153 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 71 of 153 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 153 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 153 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 153 occurrencesMiocene — about 20 of 153 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 153 occurrencesPleistocene — about 10 of 153 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 3 occurrences99–95 Mya — about 10 occurrences95–91 Mya — about 6 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 3 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 7 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 14 occurrences78–74 Mya — about 14 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 10 occurrences70–66 Mya — about 5 occurrences66–62 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–8.3 Mya — about 5 occurrences8.3–4.1 Mya — about 15 occurrences4.1–0 Mya — about 51 occurrences119.57 Mya11.7 ka124 Mya0 Mya

153 occurrences of Salmoniformes on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

153 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

44 formations

Dinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.51°WDinosaur Park — 50.79°N, 111.62°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.46°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.40°WDinosaur Park — 50.78°N, 111.33°WDinosaur Park — 50.68°N, 108.09°WOldman — 50.75°N, 111.51°WOldman — 50.83°N, 111.32°WNiobrara — 38.72°N, 100.70°WNiobrara — 43.41°N, 103.31°WNiobrara — 38.79°N, 100.76°WNiobrara — 38.80°N, 100.19°WPierre Shale — 49.33°N, 98.31°WPierre Shale — 49.48°N, 98.46°WPierre Shale — 49.37°N, 98.27°WSan Mateo — 33.20°N, 117.37°WMooreville Chalk — 32.96°N, 88.13°WMooreville Chalk — 32.60°N, 87.68°WHaughton — 75.41°N, 89.43°WPinole Tuff — 37.97°N, 122.25°WPinole Tuff — 38.01°N, 122.30°WPrince Creek — 70.02°N, 151.59°WPrince Creek — 70.09°N, 151.54°WSanta Margarita — 37.01°N, 122.01°WSanta Margarita — 36.97°N, 122.06°WGlenns Ferry — 42.82°N, 114.95°WGlenns Ferry — 42.84°N, 116.10°WKlondike Mountain — 48.66°N, 118.75°WKlondike Mountain — 48.88°N, 118.87°WLower Chalk — 51.12°N, 1.31°ELower Chalk — 52.18°N, 0.17°EHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.40°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 107.00°WKaiparowits — 37.42°N, 111.77°WSannine Limestone — 34.13°N, 35.75°EAlturas — 41.49°N, 120.65°WAlturas — 40.16°N, 120.27°WHolleywell, New Pit, Lewes — 51.30°N, 0.39°ECalcari di Melissano — 40.10°N, 8.48°ESelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WDrakes Bay — 37.99°N, 123.00°WBelle Fourche — 53.21°N, 103.52°WAshville — 53.48°N, 102.24°WWapiti — 55.25°N, 118.51°W

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The named rock units Salmoniformes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 65 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Salmoniformes and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,657 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 133 sites for Salmoniformes, 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

81 references

Each of the 153 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. 69 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 Salmoniformes

Credit
Engbretson Eric, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Synchrotron Imaging scan

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In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Salmoniformes indet. · UMMP:VP:52619

The description on this site

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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. Bleeker 1859