Congridarum

Congridarum

Naturalis Biodiversity Center · CC0 · 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
CongridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Anguilliformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Anguilliformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Anguilliformes

Time the record covers

At least 58 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 129 ka.

Paleocene — about 1 of 50 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 7 of 50 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 50 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 28 of 50 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 50 occurrencesPleistocene — about 6 of 50 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 5 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 4 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 9 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 7 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–8.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.4–6.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.3–4.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.2–2.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences59.24 Mya774 ka63 Mya0 Mya

50 occurrences of Congridarum 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

50 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

15 formations

Mount Harris — 44.20°S, 170.71°EMount Harris — 44.48°S, 170.90°EMount Harris — 44.30°S, 170.99°EMount Harris — 44.49°S, 171.01°EPort Campbell Limestone — 37.72°S, 141.93°EHarudi — 23.52°N, 68.68°ENanggulan — 7.73°S, 110.18°EPakaurangi — 36.24°S, 174.28°ECalamity Point Sandstone — 46.03°S, 167.71°EPorters Creek — 32.02°N, 87.42°WStone City — 30.67°N, 96.56°WWaioha Shellbeds — 34.50°S, 172.96°EHukatere Sandstone — 36.23°S, 174.29°EWaitoura Marl — 44.78°S, 170.57°ESlip Point Siltstone — 46.03°S, 167.71°ERifle Butts Siltstone — 45.06°S, 170.95°EMarnes de Saint-Etienne-d’Orthe — 43.57°N, 1.10°WSemata — 35.52°N, 140.08°E

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The named rock units Congridarum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Congridarum and its relatives

Miocene

Where Congridarum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

538 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Congridarum, 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

18 references

Each of the 50 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. 6 further references are not listed. 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 Congridarum

Source
GBIF
Credit
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCongridae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kaup 1856