Acanthopagrus sp.
Acanthopagrus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sparidae, the sea breams and porgies. The fish in this genus are found in the Indian and western Pacific Oceans.

Axel Strauß · 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.
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Acanthopagrus sp. on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
2 occurrences- Pleistocene50%
- Holocene50%
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.
Acanthopagrus sp. and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Acanthopagrus sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
59 taxa- Acanthopagrus australis1 site
- Achoerodus1 site
- Agamidae1 site
- Amblychaeturichthys sp.1 site
- Arctocephalus doriferus1 site
- Ardenna bulleri1 site
- Ardenna grisea1 site
- Ardenna tenuirostris1 site
- Argyrosomus1 site
- Brachyura1 site
- Canis lupus dingo1 site
- Carangidae1 site
- Chaenogobius castaneus1 site
- Colubridae1 site
- Corvus1 site
- Dasyurus maculatus1 site
- Diomedea exulans1 site
- Echinoidea1 site
- Elapidae1 site
- Eudyptula minor novaehollandiae1 site
- Gallus gallus1 site
- Hemiramphidae1 site
- Isoodon obesulus1 site
- Ixobrychus dubius1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Acanthopagrus sp., 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
2 references- Late Holocene hunting economies in coastal southeastern Australia: Insights from the archaeological fauna of Curracurrang 1 Rockshelter, Royal National Park1
- Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic fish faunas of Japan1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Acanthopagrus sp.
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Axel Strauß
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Acanthopagrus sp. was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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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What may have been alongside itFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.