Aphanius crassicaudus
Aphanius crassicaudus is an extinct species of fish in the family Aphaniidae. It lived in the Late Miocene in brackish and hypersaline lagoons along the northern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Fossils are known from Greece, Italy, and Spain.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AphaniusPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Cyprinodontiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Cyprinodontiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cyprinodontiformes
Time the record covers
At most 6.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
31 occurrences of Aphanius crassicaudus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
31 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Aphanius crassicaudus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Aphanius crassicaudus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Aphanius crassicaudus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
212 taxa- Gobius7 sites
- Atherina boyeri5 sites
- Spratelloides gracilis5 sites
- Accipitridae2 sites
- Alosa elongata2 sites
- Amphisbaenia2 sites
- Anguinae2 sites
- Apocricetus barrierei2 sites
- Apodemus gudrunae2 sites
- Arnoglossus2 sites
- Atherina2 sites
- Clupeonella2 sites
- Cyprideis2 sites
- Eucyon monticinensis2 sites
- Gobius multipinnatus2 sites
- Gobius niger2 sites
- Gomphotheriidae2 sites
- Lacertidae2 sites
- Lophiiformes2 sites
- Microchirus2 sites
- Mugil2 sites
- Myctophum2 sites
- Paraethomys2 sites
- Phasianidae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Aphanius crassicaudus, 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
8 references- Données récentes sur Les téléostéens du Miocène et du Pliocéne d'Italie21
- L’ichthyofaune messinienne du bassin de Sorbas (Almería, Espagne) et ses rapports avec l’en- vironnement sédimentaire3
- Fish mass mortality in the Upper Miocene laminated gypsum of western Crete (Hania Province, Greece)2
- An overview of the late Miocene vertebrates from the fissure fillings of Monticino Quarry (Brisighella, Italy), with new data on non-mammalian taxa1
- Fossil marine fishes and the ʻLago Mareʼ event: Has the Mediterranean ever transformed into a brackish lake?1
- The upper Messinian assemblages of fossil vertebrate remains of Verduno (NW Italy): Another brick for a latest Miocene bridge acress the Mediterranean1
- The record of the Messinian salinity crisis in the Tertiary Piedmont Basin (NW Italy): The Alba section revisited1
- Fish otoliths from the Messinian of Strada degli Archi (Tuscany, Italy) – Taxonomy and palaeoecology1
Each of the 31 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 Aphanius crassicaudus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Hectonichus
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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 itAphanius through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1839