Vinctifer

Vinctifer is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish erected by David Starr Jordan in 1919.

Vinctifer

Hectonichus · 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
AspidorhynchidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Aspidorhynchidae
Life habit
nektonic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Aspidorhynchidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Aspidorhynchidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Aspidorhynchidae

Time the record covers

At least 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 110.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 16 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 3 of 16 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 13 of 16 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 16 occurrences163–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 2 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 3 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 3 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences112–110 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149.2 Mya110.1 Mya163 Mya99 Mya

16 occurrences of Vinctifer on record, most of them in the Early 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

16 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

6 formations

Romualdo — 7.52°S, 39.57°WRomualdo — 7.51°S, 39.55°WRomualdo — 7.47°S, 39.76°WRomualdo — 7.43°S, 39.82°WRomualdo — 7.22°S, 39.27°WAmeghino — 64.47°S, 58.97°WAmeghino — 64.33°S, 58.80°WMarizal — 10.51°S, 39.01°WMarizal — 10.60°S, 38.39°WMissão Velha — 7.26°S, 39.14°WApón — 10.48°N, 72.42°WTlayúa — 18.59°N, 97.90°W

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

Vinctifer and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Vinctifer and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

107 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Vinctifer, 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

8 references

Each of the 16 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 content2

Picture of Vinctifer

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Synchrotron Imaging scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Vinctifer comptoni · ummp:vp:101950

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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What may have been alongside itAspidorhynchidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.