Centriscidae

The Centriscidae are a family of fishes from the order Syngnathiformes which includes the snipefishes, shrimpfishes, and bellowfishes. A small family, consisting of only about over a dozen marine species in two subfamilies, they are of an unusual appearance, as reflected by their common names. Shrimpfish are restricted to relatively shallow, tropical parts of the Indo-Pacific, while snipefish and bellowfish are found in temperate and deeper tropical waters worldwide.

Centriscidae

Karelj · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
SyngnathiformesPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 17 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 17 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 17 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 17 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 17 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 17 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 17 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences48.07 Mya3.6 Mya146 Mya0 Mya

17 occurrences of Centriscidae on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

17 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

1 formation

Menelite — 49.93°N, 22.02°E

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The named rock units Centriscidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Centriscidae and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Centriscidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

705 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Centriscidae, 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 17 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 Centriscidae

Credit
Karelj
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rafinesque 1826