Austrophycis pseudomegalops

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 5.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 21.7 Mya to 15.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 25.2 Mya to 15.1 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 13 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 12 of 13 occurrencesMiocene25–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21.7 Mya15.9 Mya25.7 Mya14.6 Mya

13 occurrences of Austrophycis pseudomegalops on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

13 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

6 formations

Mount Harris — 44.82°S, 170.88°EMount Harris — 45.06°S, 170.95°EMount Harris — 45.03°S, 171.02°ESouthburn Sand — 44.42°S, 170.89°ESouthburn Sand — 44.30°S, 171.00°ERifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.66°S, 170.65°ESlip Point Siltstone — 46.03°S, 167.71°ERifle Butts Siltstone — 45.14°S, 170.93°E

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The named rock units Austrophycis pseudomegalops has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Austrophycis pseudomegalops and its relatives

Miocene

Where Austrophycis pseudomegalops and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

112 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Austrophycis pseudomegalops, 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 13 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 content0

No picture of Austrophycis pseudomegalops was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Austrophycis pseudomegalops, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Austrophycis pseudomegalops 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAustrophycis through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schwarzhans 1980)