Aphanius

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Also called

nonoPBDB

Sits inside

CyprinodontidaePBDB

Diet

omnivorePBDB, for Cyprinodontiformes

Life habit

nektonicPBDB, for Cyprinodontiformes

Motility

actively mobilePBDB, for Cyprinodontiformes

• Miocene97%
• Pleistocene3%

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.

• Gobius8 sites
• Atherina boyeri5 sites
• Spratelloides gracilis5 sites
• Accipitridae2 sites
• Alosa elongata2 sites
• Amphisbaenia2 sites
• Anguinae2 sites
• Aphia2 sites
• Apocricetus barrierei2 sites
• Apodemus gudrunae2 sites
• Arnoglossus2 sites
• Atherina2 sites
• Clupeonella2 sites
• Cyprideis2 sites
• Eucyon monticinensis2 sites
• Gobiidae2 sites
• Gobius multipinnatus2 sites
• Gobius niger2 sites
• Gomphotheriidae2 sites
• Lacertidae2 sites
• Lesueurigobius2 sites
• Lophiiformes2 sites
• Microchirus2 sites
• Mugil2 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Aphanius, 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.

• Données récentes sur Les téléostéens du Miocène et du Pliocéne d'ItalieLandini and Sorbini, 1992 · Geobios · journal article22
• L’ichthyofaune messinienne du bassin de Sorbas (Almería, Espagne) et ses rapports avec l’en- vironnement sédimentaireGaudant, 2008 · Revista Española de Paleontología · journal article3
• Fish mass mortality in the Upper Miocene laminated gypsum of western Crete (Hania Province, Greece)Gaudant, 2014 · Palaeodiversity · journal article2
• An overview of the late Miocene vertebrates from the fissure fillings of Monticino Quarry (Brisighella, Italy), with new data on non-mammalian taxaVilla et al., 2021 · Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia · journal article1
• The Zanclean marine fish fauna and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of a coastal marine setting in the eastern MediterraneanAgiadi et al., 2020 · Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments · journal article1
• Fossil marine fishes and the ʻLago Mareʼ event: Has the Mediterranean ever transformed into a brackish lake?Carnevale et al., 2018 · Newsletters on Stratigraphy · journal article1
• The upper Messinian assemblages of fossil vertebrate remains of Verduno (NW Italy): Another brick for a latest Miocene bridge acress the MediterraneanColombero et al., 2014 · Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie · journal article1
• The record of the Messinian salinity crisis in the Tertiary Piedmont Basin (NW Italy): The Alba section revisitedDela Pierre et al., 2011 · Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology · journal article1
• Fish otoliths from the Messinian of Strada degli Archi (Tuscany, Italy) – Taxonomy and palaeoecologyCaputo et al., 2009 · Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien · journal article1
• A new fossil Aphanius species from the Upper Miocene of Armenia (Eastern Paratethys)Vasilyan et al., 2009 · Paläontol Z · journal article1

Each of the 34 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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nardo 1827