Benthosema suborbitale

Benthosema suborbitale is a species of fish in the family Myctophidae.

Benthosema suborbitale

MARC MARTIN SOLA · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
BenthosemaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Myctophiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Myctophiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Myctophiformes

Time the record covers

At least 6.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 8 of 14 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 14 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 4 of 14 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 14 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.246 Mya774 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

14 occurrences of Benthosema suborbitale on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

14 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

4 formations

Gutingkeng — 23.00°N, 120.42°EGutingkeng — 22.84°N, 120.41°Efacies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°ELindos Bay — 36.36°N, 28.21°EMiyata — 35.19°N, 39.65°E

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The named rock units Benthosema suborbitale has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Benthosema suborbitale and its relatives

Miocene

Where Benthosema suborbitale and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

250 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Benthosema suborbitale, 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

7 references

Each of the 14 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Benthosema suborbitale

Source
GBIF
Credit
MARC MARTIN SOLA
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Benthosema suborbitale was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was 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 itBenthosema through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gilbert 1913)