Austrocentris cavernosus
No picture of Austrocentris cavernosus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Austrocentris cavernosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AustrocentrisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Beryciformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Beryciformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Beryciformes
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Austrocentris cavernosus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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- Oligocene100%
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.
Austrocentris cavernosus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Austrocentris cavernosus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Coelorhynchus toulai1 site
- Congridarum obrutus1 site
- Escharoides erecta1 site
- Gnathophis ornatus1 site
- Hippomenella magna1 site
- Lactarius sigmoidalis1 site
- Nolfophidion refertus1 site
- Paraulopus miocaenicus1 site
- Periplacotrochus elongatus1 site
- Phylactella chapmani1 site
- Porella cylindrorostris1 site
- Pterothrissus pervetustus1 site
- Zoila glomerabilis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Austrocentris cavernosus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Tertiäre Otolithen aus South Australia und Victoria (Australien)1
- Fish otoliths from the Tertiary strata of Victoria, Australia1
Each 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
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No picture of Austrocentris cavernosus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Austrocentris cavernosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Austrocentris cavernosus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAustrocentris through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stinton 1957)