Cymnoscopelus fitchi
No picture of Cymnoscopelus fitchi was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Cymnoscopelus fitchi firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 1.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 3.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Cymnoscopelus fitchi on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
2 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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.
Cymnoscopelus fitchi and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Cymnoscopelus fitchi and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Ceratoscopelus maderensis2 sites
- Diaphus2 sites
- Diaphus splendidus2 sites
- Electrona anfossimosnai2 sites
- Hygophum agrigentensis2 sites
- Micromesistius2 sites
- Myctophum oroseinum2 sites
- Trachyrhynchus2 sites
- Bathygadus novus1 site
- Bregmaceros1 site
- Coelorhynchus toulai cristatus1 site
- Coelorhynchus toulai touli1 site
- Corphaenoida contortus1 site
- Diaphus austriacus1 site
- Diaphus crassus1 site
- Diaphus kokeni1 site
- Gadiculus (Gadiculus) argenteus communis1 site
- Gnathophis1 site
- Hepthocara pauper1 site
- Hildebrandia pantanellii1 site
- Hoplostethus pisanus1 site
- Hygophum probenoiti1 site
- Lactarius1 site
- Merluccius merluccius1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cymnoscopelus fitchi, 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 referenceEach of the 2 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
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No picture of Cymnoscopelus fitchi was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Cymnoscopelus fitchi firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Cymnoscopelus fitchi 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.