Eucinostomus

Brian Gratwicke · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikidata/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.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GerreidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At least 3.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.
3 occurrences of Eucinostomus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
- Onzole Formation · Daule Group1
- Bowden Formation1
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The named rock units Eucinostomus 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.
Eucinostomus and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Eucinostomus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
136 taxa- Albula2 sites
- Belonidae2 sites
- Haemulon2 sites
- Holocentrus2 sites
- Sphyraena2 sites
- "Dinematichthyinorum" smithvanizi1 site
- "Dinematichthyinorum" sp.1 site
- Acanthurus1 site
- Anisotremus1 site
- Anisotremus virginicus1 site
- Anolis1 site
- Apogon1 site
- Archosargus1 site
- Arcopagia fausta1 site
- Ariosoma balearica1 site
- Asaphis deflorata1 site
- Atherinomorus stipes1 site
- Aves1 site
- Balistidae1 site
- Bathyclupea1 site
- Bolinichthys1 site
- Bothidae1 site
- Brachidontes1 site
- Bregmaceros1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Eucinostomus, 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
3 references- Taphonomic and paleoecological analyses (mollusks and fishes) of the Súa Member condensed shelled, upper Onzole Formation (Early Pliocene, Ecuador)1
- Late Prehistoric Lucayan occupation and subsistence on Middle Caicos Island, northern West Indies1
- Otolith-based fishes form the Bowden Shell Bed (Pliocene) of Jamaica: Systematics and Palaeoecology1
Each of the 3 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 content1

Picture of Eucinostomus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Brian Gratwicke
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Eucinostomus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGerreidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Baird and Girard 1855