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.

Aphanius crassicaudus

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
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.

Miocene — about 31 of 31 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 31 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.9–9.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.7–9.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.5–9.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.2–9.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.0–8.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.7–8.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.5–8.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.2–8.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.0–7.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.8–7.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.5–7.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.3–7.0 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.0–6.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.8–6.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.5–6.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.3–6.0 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.0–5.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.8–5.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.6–5.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences12.1 Mya4.8 Mya

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

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

Sorbas — 37.09°N, 2.09°WYesares — 37.08°N, 2.09°WColombacci — 44.22°N, 11.77°E

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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

Miocene

Where Aphanius crassicaudus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

212 taxa

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

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

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1839