Genypterus valdesensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GenypterusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, parasitePBDB, for Ophidiiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Ophidiiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ophidiiformes
Time the record covers
At most 6.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Genypterus valdesensis 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
2 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 Genypterus valdesensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Genypterus valdesensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Genypterus valdesensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Ameghinomya meridionalis1 site
- Carcharias1 site
- Cetotheriidae1 site
- Gadiformes1 site
- Isurus xiphodon1 site
- Kawas benegasorum1 site
- Myliobatis1 site
- Ophidiiformes1 site
- Otodus megalodon1 site
- Phocidae1 site
- Pinguipedidae1 site
- Pleuronectiformes1 site
- Pomadasidae1 site
- Scorpaeniformes1 site
- Silurifomes indet.1 site
- Squatina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Genypterus valdesensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Miocene Marine Transgressions: Paleoenvironments and Paleobiodiversity1
- A Miocene cusk-eel (Ophidiiformes: Ophidiidae) from Península Valdés, Argentina1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Genypterus valdesensis 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 Genypterus valdesensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Genypterus valdesensis 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 itGenypterus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Riva Rossi et al. 2000