Anguilla

Anguilla

Uncredited · 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnguillidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Anguilliformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Anguilliformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Anguilliformes

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 10 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 10 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 10 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 10 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences41.03 Mya11.7 ka49 Mya0 Mya

10 occurrences of Anguilla on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

10 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

Bermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°ELede — 50.92°N, 3.78°EBoom — 51.12°N, 4.36°E

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The named rock units Anguilla has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anguilla and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Anguilla and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

587 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Anguilla, 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

9 references

Each of the 10 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 content3

Picture of Anguilla

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Anguilla rostrata · TCWC:Ichthyology:899.01

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itAnguillidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schrank 1798