Aulostomidae

The trumpetfishes are three species of highly specialized, tubularly-elongated marine fishes in the genus Aulostomus, of the monogeneric family Aulostomidae. The trumpetfishes are members of the order Syngnathiformes, together with the seahorses and the similarly built, closely related cornetfishes.

Aulostomidae

Ahmed Abdul Rahman · 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
SyngnathiformesPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 49 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 11 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesEocene — about 7 of 11 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 11 occurrencesOligocene87–85 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences83.6 Mya33.9 Mya87 Mya26 Mya

11 occurrences of Aulostomidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

11 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.

Aulostomidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Aulostomidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

555 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Aulostomidae, 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

5 references

Each of the 11 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 Aulostomidae

Credit
Ahmed Abdul Rahman
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Aulostomidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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

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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 itSyngnathiformes through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.