Apogonoides
Searched as Apogonoides cottreaui. The Paleobiology Database treats Apogonoides as the accepted name.
Cercamia is a genus of fishes in the family Apogonidae, the cardinalfishes. They are native to the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

orangkucing · 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
- PerciformesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Perciformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Perciformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Perciformes
Time the record covers
At most 2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 7.246 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Apogonoides on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
2 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Apogonoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Apogonoides and its relatives
MioceneWhere Apogonoides and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
93 taxa- Achirus mediterraneus1 site
- Alosa crassa1 site
- Alosa elongata1 site
- Antennarius monodi1 site
- Arnoglossus sauvagei1 site
- Batrachoides didactylus1 site
- Boops roulei1 site
- Box roulei1 site
- Branchiostegus1 site
- Bregmaceros albyi1 site
- Brosme1 site
- Capros1 site
- Capros aper1 site
- Caranx (Decapterus) prorusselli1 site
- Cepola cuneata1 site
- Chaetodon (Arambourgchaetodon) ficheuri1 site
- Chromis savornini1 site
- Citharichthys oranensis1 site
- Crenidens intermedius1 site
- Crenilabrus pellegrini1 site
- Dentex barbarus1 site
- Diaphus edwardsi1 site
- Diplodus1 site
- Diplodus jomnitanus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Apogonoides, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Apogonoides
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- orangkucing
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Photogrammetry
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Parambassis apogonoides · UF:Fish:245186
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Cercamia”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPerciformes through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bleeker 1849