Acregoliath

Acregoliath is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish that existed during the middle of Miocene epoch, about 13.76 to 13.34 million years ago. It is known from very fragmentary remains which consist of several scales that were found in Brazil. Judging from the size of the scales, Acregoliath is believed to be a very large freshwater fish. But due to the fragmentary nature of the fossils, its exact size and appearance are difficult to reconstruct. Its scale morphology has been compared with extant osteoglossiform, dipnoan, or siluriform fish especially the loricarioid.

Acregoliath

User:Haplochromis · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
TeleosteiPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At most 5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 15.98 Mya and 11 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 2 of 2 occurrencesMiocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16.5 Mya10.5 Mya

2 occurrences of Acregoliath on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

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

La Victoria — 3.22°N, 75.22°WPebas — 3.74°S, 73.25°W

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

Acregoliath and its relatives

Miocene

Where Acregoliath and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

27 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Acregoliath, 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

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 Acregoliath

Credit
User:Haplochromis
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Acregoliath was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itTeleostei through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Richter 1989