Antigonia

Antigonia is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Antigoniidae, the deepwater boarfishes, of which it is the only extant genus. This genus is found in the warmer oceans around the world.

Antigonia

Uncredited · 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
AntigoniidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 43 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.9 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 29 occurrencesEocene — about 18 of 29 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 29 occurrencesMiocene — about 10 of 29 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 29 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 3 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–37 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.8–8.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.0–6.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.2–4.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.4–2.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48.9 Mya5.333 Mya57 Mya3 Mya

29 occurrences of Antigonia on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

29 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

11 formations

Miretrain Marl — 43.57°N, 1.11°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WElmore — 50.80°N, 1.21°WOtaio Gorge Sandstone — 44.52°S, 170.93°EWaihao Greensand — 44.40°S, 171.04°ELede — 50.92°N, 3.78°ECalcaire Grossier — 49.31°N, 2.25°ESant’Agata Fossili — 45.07°N, 7.94°E“upper” Lisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WPiney Point — 37.61°N, 76.76°WGutingkeng — 23.00°N, 120.42°E

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The named rock units Antigonia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Antigonia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Antigonia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

915 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Antigonia, 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

15 references

Each of the 29 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. 3 further references are not listed. 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 Antigonia

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Antigonia was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was 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 itAntigoniidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lowe 1843