Bathycongrus mysticus
No picture of Bathycongrus mysticus 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 Bathycongrus mysticus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BathycongrusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Anguilliformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Anguilliformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Anguilliformes
Time the record covers
At least 5.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 13.05 Mya to 7.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.1 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
2 occurrences of Bathycongrus mysticus 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
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.
Bathycongrus mysticus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Bathycongrus mysticus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Benthosema concentricus2 sites
- Diaphus cassidiformis2 sites
- Lactarius sigmoidalis2 sites
- Antimyctophum konganaruensis1 site
- Coelorhynchus demonstratus1 site
- Congridarum carinatus1 site
- Diaphus excisus1 site
- Diaphus exilis1 site
- Diaphus marwicki1 site
- Gadiculus adversus1 site
- Hygophum circularis1 site
- Karrerichthys tenuis1 site
- Nezumia sagittiformis1 site
- Otodus megalodon1 site
- Paralaemonema1 site
- Trachyrincus aulax1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Bathycongrus mysticus, 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- Reconstruction of the fossil marine bony fish fauna (Teleostei) from the Eocene to Pleistocene of New Zealand by means of otoliths. With studies of Recent congroid, morid and trachinoid otoliths1
- Otoliths of Fishes from the Tertiary Formations of New Zealand1
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 Bathycongrus mysticus 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 Bathycongrus mysticus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bathycongrus mysticus 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 itBathycongrus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Frost 1934)