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Silurus ✝

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	263685	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=263685

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Silurus	genus	belongs to Siluridae	stated with evidence	Woodward, 1901

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 7.8 Ma
Miocene

Last Recorded Appearance

0.78 - 0.01 Ma
Pleistocene

Environment

freshwater (based on Siluriformes)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Siluriformes)

Diet

carnivore (based on Siluriformes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

A. S. Woodward. 1901. Catalogue of Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History), Part IV

Fossil Distribution

Year	Name and Author
1758	Silurus Linnaeus
1901	Silurus Woodward p. 325

Woodward A. S. (1901) , Catalogue of Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History), Part IV, 1-636

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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