Callionymidae

Dragonets are small percomorph marine fish of the diverse family Callionymidae found mainly in the tropical waters of the western Indo-Pacific. They are benthic organisms, spending most of their time near the sandy bottoms, at a depth of roughly two hundred meters. There exist 139 species of the fish, in nineteen genera.

Callionymidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CallionymoideiPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 22 occurrencesEocene — about 6 of 22 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 22 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 13 of 22 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 22 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 22 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–40 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–15 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–11 Mya — about 6 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.8–1.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence48.07 Mya129 ka57 Mya0 Mya

22 occurrences of Callionymidae 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

22 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

Selsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WQuilon — 8.81°N, 76.65°EElmore — 50.80°N, 1.21°WTsurevsky — 44.41°N, 39.79°EGutingkeng — 23.00°N, 120.42°EYokosuka — 35.26°N, 139.71°E

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The named rock units Callionymidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Callionymidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Callionymidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

348 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Callionymidae, 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

12 references

Each of the 22 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 Callionymidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Callionymidae 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

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 itCallionymoidei through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.