Fisherichthys
No picture of Fisherichthys 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 Fisherichthys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SciaenidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
4 occurrences of Fisherichthys 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
4 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
4 formations
- Nanjemoy Formation1
- Tallahatta Formation · Claiborne Group1
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group1
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group1
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The named rock units Fisherichthys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Fisherichthys and its relatives
EoceneWhere Fisherichthys and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
316 taxa- Aetomylaeus4 sites
- Cylindracanthus rectus4 sites
- Jacquhermania duponti4 sites
- Ostraciidae4 sites
- Physogaleus secundus4 sites
- Striatolamia macrota4 sites
- Trichiurides sagittidens4 sites
- Abdounia3 sites
- Abdounia beaugei3 sites
- Abdounia minutissima3 sites
- Albula eppsi3 sites
- Albula oweni3 sites
- Anoxypristis3 sites
- Brachycarcharias lerichei3 sites
- Burnhamia daviesi3 sites
- Chondrichthyes3 sites
- Egertonia isodonta3 sites
- Hypotodus verticalis3 sites
- Jaekelotodus robustus3 sites
- Nebrius thielensi3 sites
- Phyllodus toliapicus3 sites
- Pristidae3 sites
- Rhinoptera3 sites
- Scoliodon conecuhensis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Fisherichthys, 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- Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the elasmobranchs and bony fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) of the lower-to-middle Eocene (Ypresian to Bartonian) Claiborne Group in Alabama, USA, including an analysis of otoliths2
- An inquiry into the stratigraphic occurrence of a Claibornian (Eocene) vertebrate fauna from Covington County, Alabama1
- Part 4. Actinopterygian Fishes from the Fisher/Sullivan Site1
Each of the 4 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 Fisherichthys 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 Fisherichthys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Fisherichthys 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 itSciaenidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weems 1999