Gadiculus

Gadiculus, or the silvery pouts, is a genus of cod, fishes in the family Gadidae. They are distributed in the coastal waters of the Northeast Atlantic and the adjacent Mediterranean Sea. They do not grow larger than 15 cm (5.9 in) and are of minor importance to local commercial fisheries.

Gadiculus

Joachim Langeneck · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
GadidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Gadiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Gadiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gadiformes

Time the record covers

At least 26 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 129 ka.

Eocene — about 0 of 74 occurrencesOligocene — about 3 of 74 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 46 of 74 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 10 of 74 occurrencesPleistocene — about 15 of 74 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 6 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 5 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 7 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences27.3 Mya774 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

74 occurrences of Gadiculus on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

74 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

16 formations

Lindos Bay — 36.09°N, 28.01°ELindos Bay — 36.26°N, 28.17°ELindos Bay — 36.36°N, 28.21°EMount Harris — 44.48°S, 170.90°EMount Harris — 45.21°S, 170.88°EMount Harris — 45.03°S, 171.02°EOosterhout — 51.70°N, 5.73°ERifle Butts Siltstone — 45.14°S, 170.93°EHrušky — 48.81°N, 16.63°ESant’Agata Fossili — 45.07°N, 7.94°ESant’Agata Fossili — 45.07°N, 7.97°ERaz-el-Ain — 35.71°N, 0.64°WBerchem — 51.20°N, 4.44°ERifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°EWaioha Shellbeds — 34.50°S, 172.96°EWaititi — 35.54°S, 173.37°EPakaurangi — 36.24°S, 174.28°EHukatere Sandstone — 36.23°S, 174.29°EBells Creek Limestone — 41.33°S, 175.48°EGaindorf — 48.49°N, 15.72°EBoom Clay — 51.13°N, 4.26°E

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The named rock units Gadiculus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 48 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gadiculus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Gadiculus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,059 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 68 sites for Gadiculus, 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

25 references

Each of the 74 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. 13 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Gadiculus

Credit
Joachim Langeneck
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Gadiculus argenteus · YPM:VZ:YPM ICH 003572

The description on this site

Licence
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 itGadidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Guichenot 1850