Electrona rissoi

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
electric lantern fishPBDB
Sits inside
ElectronaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Myctophiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Myctophiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Myctophiformes

Time the record covers

At least 3.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 2 of 16 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 16 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 8 of 16 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 16 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.2–2.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.4–2.0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.6 Mya129 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

16 occurrences of Electrona rissoi on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

16 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

5 formations

Cubagua — 10.83°N, 64.17°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.75°N, 118.29°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WPico — 33.59°N, 117.85°WArgille Azzurre — 43.31°N, 11.49°E

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The named rock units Electrona rissoi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Electrona rissoi and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Electrona rissoi and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

600 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Electrona rissoi, 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

9 references

Each of the 16 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 content0

No picture of Electrona rissoi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Electrona rissoi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Electrona rissoi was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itElectrona through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cocco 1829)