Euzaphlegidae

Euzaphlegidae is a family of extinct escolar-like ray-finned fish closely related to the snake mackerels. Fossils of euzaphlegids are found from earliest Eocene to Late Miocene-aged marine strata of Europe, the Caucasus Mountains, India, Iran, Turkmenistan, Italy, and Southern California.

Euzaphlegidae

Mr Fink ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ScombriformesPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 36 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesEocene — about 7 of 17 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 17 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 17 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 17 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–9.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.6–7.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.8–6.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.1–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48.07 Mya11.63 Mya57 Mya4 Mya

17 occurrences of Euzaphlegidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

17 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

8 formations

Monterey — 34.61°N, 120.44°WChiusole — 45.54°N, 10.85°EPshekha Horizon — 43.57°N, 44.08°EPshekha Horizon — 44.74°N, 39.81°EDabakhana Svita — 41.72°N, 44.83°EModelo — 34.13°N, 118.48°WDanata — 38.61°N, 56.88°EKuma Horizon — 44.74°N, 39.81°EMenilite — 49.20°N, 17.20°E

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The named rock units Euzaphlegidae 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.

Euzaphlegidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Euzaphlegidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

470 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Euzaphlegidae, 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

10 references

Each of the 17 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 Euzaphlegidae

Credit
Mr Fink ( talk )
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Euzaphlegidae 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itScombriformes through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Daniltshenko 1960