Alosa elongata

Alosa elongata

Comune di Alba · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
AlosaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Clupeiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Clupeiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Clupeiformes

Time the record covers

At least 1.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Miocene — about 13 of 14 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 14 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 14 occurrences7.4–7.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.2–7.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.0–6.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.8–6.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.6–6.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.4–6.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.2–6.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.0–5.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.9–5.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.7–5.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.5–5.3 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences3.8–3.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.4–3.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.2–3.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.0–2.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.333 Mya3.6 Mya7.7 Mya2.1 Mya

14 occurrences of Alosa elongata on record. 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

14 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

1 formation

Raz-el-Ain — 35.71°N, 0.64°W

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The named rock units Alosa elongata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

245 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Alosa elongata, 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 14 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 Alosa elongata

Source
GBIF
Credit
Comune di Alba
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Alosa elongata 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAlosa through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1842