Gobius

Gobius is a genus of fish in the family Gobiidae native to fresh, brackish and marine waters of and around Europe, Africa and Asia. It contains the typical gobies, being the type genus of the formerly recognised subfamily Gobiinae and family and the namesake genus of its order Gobiiformes.

Gobius

Etrusko25 · Public Domain · 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
GobiidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 182 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 182 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 182 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 182 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 182 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 182 occurrencesMiocene — about 98 of 182 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 26 of 182 occurrencesPleistocene — about 53 of 182 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–29 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 6 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 14 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 32 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 52 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 74 occurrences33.9 Mya774 ka146 Mya0 Mya

182 occurrences of Gobius on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

182 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

12 formations

Raz-el-Ain — 35.71°N, 0.64°WLindos Bay — 36.09°N, 28.01°ELindos Bay — 36.26°N, 28.17°ELindos Bay — 36.36°N, 28.21°ENarita — 35.35°N, 140.10°ENarita — 35.78°N, 140.32°EHrušky — 48.81°N, 16.63°EBrackwater Molasse — 48.48°N, 10.10°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.66°N, 10.23°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.63°N, 11.80°ESant’Agata Fossili — 45.07°N, 7.94°EZdanice-Hustopece — 49.13°N, 16.86°EQuilon — 8.81°N, 76.65°EOwtsu — 35.26°N, 139.69°ETokyo — 35.75°N, 139.73°ENuma — 34.99°N, 139.85°E

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The named rock units Gobius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 152 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gobius and its relatives

Miocene

Where Gobius and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,319 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 103 sites for Gobius, 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

51 references

Each of the 182 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. 39 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 Gobius

Credit
Etrusko25
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Gobius incognitus · nmp:6v:146150

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 itGobiidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758