Genidens sp.
Genidens is a genus of sea catfishes found along the Atlantic coast of South America. There are currently four recognized species in this genus.

Cláudio D. Timm · CC BY 2.0 · 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.
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 15.98 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Genidens sp. on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
1 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Genidens sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Genidens sp. and its relatives
MioceneWhere Genidens sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
70 taxa- Albula sp.1 site
- Aplodinotus hoffmani1 site
- Aplodinotus longecaudatus1 site
- Apogon1 site
- Ariosoma balearica1 site
- Arius1 site
- Bregmaceros1 site
- Carcharhinus ackermannii1 site
- Carcharodon subauriculatus1 site
- Carcharrhinus egertoni1 site
- Cathorops1 site
- Centropomus undecimalis1 site
- Cetacea1 site
- Citharichthys1 site
- Conger1 site
- Ctenosciaena gracilicirrhus1 site
- Dasyatis1 site
- Diaphus1 site
- Diaphus problematicus1 site
- Diaphus regani1 site
- Diapterus sp.1 site
- Equetus davidandrewi1 site
- Equetus punctatus1 site
- Galeocerdo aduncus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Genidens sp., 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Genidens sp.
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Cláudio D. Timm
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it

CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Genidens genidens · UF:Fish:35550
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Genidens”
- 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 itFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.