Anchoa

Anchoa is a genus of ray-finned fishes in the family Engraulidae. It currently consists of 35 species.

Anchoa

SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC · Public Domain · 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ClupeidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Clupeiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Clupeiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Clupeiformes

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 18.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 3 of 6 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 6 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 6 occurrencesPleistocene19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.6–9.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.0–8.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.3–7.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.8–5.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.1–4.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.5–3.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.8–3.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences640 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences15.9 Mya129 ka19.2 Mya0 Mya

6 occurrences of Anchoa on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

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

4 formations

Gatun — 9.36°N, 79.84°WOnzole — 0.87°N, 79.89°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WRifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°E

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The named rock units Anchoa 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.

Anchoa and its relatives

Miocene

Where Anchoa and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

426 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Anchoa, 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

5 references

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. 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 Anchoa

Credit
SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Anchoa 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 itClupeidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jordan and Evermann 1927