Amblychaeturichthys sp.

David Starr Jordan / Edwin Chapin Starks · Public Domain · 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.
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Amblychaeturichthys 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
6 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
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The named rock units Amblychaeturichthys sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Amblychaeturichthys sp. and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Amblychaeturichthys sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
89 taxa- Amblychaeturichthys sciistius3 sites
- Ammodytes3 sites
- Gnathophis3 sites
- Gobiiformes3 sites
- Sillago3 sites
- Valenciennellus3 sites
- Amblychaeturichthys hexanema2 sites
- Apogonidae2 sites
- Ceratoscopelus2 sites
- Conger2 sites
- Cottidae2 sites
- Diaphus2 sites
- Diaphus (Lamprossa) watasei2 sites
- Engraulis japonicus2 sites
- Guttigadus nana2 sites
- Lepidotrigla2 sites
- Myctophidae2 sites
- Physiculus2 sites
- Sardinops2 sites
- Trachurus2 sites
- Abyssicola macrochir1 site
- Acanthopagrus sp.1 site
- Argentina1 site
- Benthosema suborbitale1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Amblychaeturichthys 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
3 references- Fish otolith record reveals possible tropical-subtropical fish community in temperate Japan during the exceptionally warm Last Interglacial period3
- Fossil fish otoliths from the Chibanian Miyata Formation, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, with comments on the paleoenvironment2
- Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic fish faunas of Japan1
Each of the 6 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 Amblychaeturichthys sp.
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- David Starr Jordan / Edwin Chapin Starks
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Amblychaeturichthys sp. 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 itFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.