Gnathophis ornatus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GnathophisPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Anguilliformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Anguilliformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Anguilliformes

Time the record covers

At least 9.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 25.2 Mya to 15.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 13.82 Mya.

Oligocene — about 5 of 29 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 24 of 29 occurrencesMiocene27–27 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25.2 Mya15.9 Mya27.8 Mya13.3 Mya

29 occurrences of Gnathophis ornatus 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

29 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

10 formations

Mount Harris — 45.15°S, 170.93°EMount Harris — 45.13°S, 170.96°EMount Harris — 44.82°S, 170.88°EMount Harris — 45.03°S, 171.02°ESouthburn Sand — 44.42°S, 170.89°ESouthburn Sand — 44.30°S, 171.00°ERifle Butts Siltstone — 45.14°S, 170.93°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.85°S, 170.52°ERifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°EKokoamu Greensand — 44.67°S, 170.36°ESlip Point Siltstone — 46.03°S, 167.71°ECalamity Point Sandstone — 46.03°S, 167.71°EFouraye Siltstone — 46.03°S, 167.71°EChatton — 46.11°S, 168.80°E

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The named rock units Gnathophis ornatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gnathophis ornatus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Gnathophis ornatus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

174 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Gnathophis ornatus, 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

4 references

Each of the 29 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Gnathophis ornatus 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 Gnathophis ornatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Gnathophis ornatus 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.

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What may have been alongside itGnathophis through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Frost 1928)