Coilia planata

Coilia, the grenadier anchovies, is a genus of anchovies. It currently contains 12–13 species. They are found in East, Southeast and South Asia, and mostly inhabit estuarine regions, but there are also species in coastal marine habitats and rivers. The largest is up to 41 cm (16 in) in length, but most species only reach around half that size.

A picture published with the record for Coilia planata. What it shows has not been checked.

BEDO (Thailand) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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.

Time the record covers

At most 6.3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 7 of 7 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 7 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.9–9.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.7–9.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.5–9.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.2–9.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.0–8.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.7–8.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.5–8.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.2–8.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.0–7.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.8–7.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.5–7.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.3–7.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.0–6.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.8–6.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.5–6.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.3–6.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.0–5.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.8–5.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.6–5.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12.1 Mya4.8 Mya

7 occurrences of Coilia planata 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

7 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

2 formations

Miri — 4.87°N, 114.82°EMiri — 4.87°N, 114.86°ESeria — 4.82°N, 114.72°E

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The named rock units Coilia planata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Coilia planata and its relatives

Miocene

Where Coilia planata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

55 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Coilia planata, 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

1 reference

Each of the 7 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 content2

Picture of Coilia planata

Credit
BEDO (Thailand)
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.