Apogoninae

The Apogoninae are the most species-rich and, of its shape, size, color and habitat, most diverse subfamily of cardinalfishes (Apogonidae). It can be found in coastal tropical and subtropical regions of the Indian Ocean, the eastern Pacific and the Atlantic, down to depths of 300 meters.

Apogoninae

Albert Kok at Dutch Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
ApogonidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 72 occurrencesEocene — about 32 of 72 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 72 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 28 of 72 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 72 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 72 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 5 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 5 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 5 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 4 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence48.07 Mya129 ka57 Mya0 Mya

72 occurrences of Apogoninae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

72 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

24 formations

Quilon — 8.81°N, 76.65°ESelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WMiretrain Marl — 43.57°N, 1.11°WCook Mountain — 30.61°N, 96.57°WCook Mountain — 31.33°N, 95.52°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.84°WEger — 47.90°N, 20.40°ENanggulan — 7.73°S, 110.18°EAalter — 50.79°N, 2.78°EAalter — 51.19°N, 3.31°ELondon Clay — 50.83°N, 0.78°WBarton Clay — 51.02°N, 1.32°WElmore — 50.80°N, 1.21°WDomanda — 29.93°N, 70.12°ECantaure — 11.97°N, 70.02°WOnzole — 0.87°N, 79.89°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WDonzacq Marl — 43.75°N, 0.84°WHarudi — 23.52°N, 68.68°ELede — 50.92°N, 3.78°ECalcaire Grossier — 49.31°N, 2.25°EMarnes de Saint-Etienne-d’Orthe — 43.57°N, 1.10°WPossagno Marl — 45.85°N, 11.87°ETapu — 24.96°N, 121.38°EGutingkeng — 22.84°N, 120.41°EChiusole — 45.54°N, 10.85°E

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The named rock units Apogoninae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Apogoninae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Apogoninae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,076 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Apogoninae, 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

34 references

Each of the 72 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. 22 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 Apogoninae

Credit
Albert Kok at Dutch Wikipedia
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Apogoninae was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itApogonidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Günther 1859