Auchenoceros

The āhuru is a species of morid cod found in waters off the eastern coast of New Zealand and to the south as well as in the Cook Strait. It is found at depths from 5 to 420 m. This species grows to 13 cm (5.1 in) in total length. It is the only known species of its genus.

Auchenoceros

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MoridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Gadiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Gadiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gadiformes

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 25.2 Mya to 1.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 340 ka.

Oligocene — about 1 of 35 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 29 of 35 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 35 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 3 of 35 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 6 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence928 ka–0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25.2 Mya1.63 Mya27.8 Mya0 Mya

35 occurrences of Auchenoceros 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

35 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

10 formations

Mount Harris — 45.14°S, 170.94°EMount Harris — 45.13°S, 170.96°EMount Harris — 44.30°S, 170.99°EMount Harris — 44.41°S, 171.06°EMount Harris — 44.49°S, 171.01°EMount Harris — 44.82°S, 170.88°EMount Harris — 45.03°S, 171.02°EMount Harris — 44.83°S, 170.97°ERifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°ERifle Butts — 45.13°S, 170.97°EWaioha Shellbeds — 34.50°S, 172.96°EPakaurangi — 36.24°S, 174.28°ESlip Point Siltstone — 46.03°S, 167.71°ECalamity Point Sandstone — 46.03°S, 167.71°EFouraye Siltstone — 46.03°S, 167.71°ESouthburn Sand — 44.37°S, 170.91°EMakaretu Mudstone — 39.97°S, 176.50°ERifle Butts Siltstone — 45.06°S, 170.95°E

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The named rock units Auchenoceros has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Auchenoceros and its relatives

Miocene

Where Auchenoceros and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

192 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Auchenoceros, 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

2 references

Each of the 35 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 content1

Picture of Auchenoceros

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 1.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Auchenoceros 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 itMoridae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Günther 1889