Coelorinchus fasciatus

The banded whiptail is a species of rattail found with a circumpolar distribution in the Great Southern Ocean at depths of between 70 and 1,100 m. Its length is between 25 and 45 cm.

Coelorinchus fasciatus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 600 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 3 Mya to 2.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.7 Mya to 1.63 Mya.

Pliocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 3 of 5 occurrencesPleistocene3.8–3.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.6–3.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.5–3.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.4–3.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.3–3.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.2–3.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.0–2.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.9–2.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–2.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.5–2.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3 Mya2.4 Mya4.2 Mya1.13 Mya

5 occurrences of Coelorinchus fasciatus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

5 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

Whenuataru Tuff — 44.23°S, 176.23°E

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The named rock units Coelorinchus fasciatus 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.

Coelorinchus fasciatus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Coelorinchus fasciatus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

21 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Coelorinchus fasciatus, 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

1 reference

Each of the 5 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 content1

Picture of Coelorinchus fasciatus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Coelorinchus fasciatus 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.

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 itCoelorinchus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Günther 1878)