Scombroclupea macrophthalma
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ScombroclupeaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Scombroclupea macrophthalma 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
4 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Scombroclupea macrophthalma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Scombroclupea macrophthalma and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Scombroclupea macrophthalma and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
50 taxa- Nematonotus bottae3 sites
- Armigatus brevissimus2 sites
- Eurypholis boissieri2 sites
- Ornategulum sardinioides2 sites
- Scombroclupea gaudryi2 sites
- Aigialosaurus bucchichi1 site
- Aipichthys minor1 site
- Apateopholis laniatus1 site
- Aphanepygus elegans1 site
- Armigatus alticorpus1 site
- Armigatus namourensis1 site
- Aspidopleurus cataphractus1 site
- Belonostomus1 site
- Belonostomus lesinaensis1 site
- Beryciformes1 site
- Clupea gigantea1 site
- Ctenodentelops striatus1 site
- Ctenothrissa vexillifer1 site
- Cyclobatis oligodactylus1 site
- Dolichosauridae1 site
- Enchodus mecoanalis1 site
- Eubiodectes libanicus1 site
- Gaudryella gaudryi1 site
- Gigapteryx tethyestris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Scombroclupea macrophthalma, 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
4 references- Fossil fishes from the Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Namoura, Lebanon1
- Vorläufige Mitteilungen über die Fischfauna der Insel Lesina1
- Pictet and Humbert, 18661
- Die fossilen Fische des Libanon1
Each of the 4 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. 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 Scombroclupea macrophthalma
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Ghedoghedo
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- 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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What may have been alongside itScombroclupea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Heckel 1849)