Hemerocoetes minutus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HemerocoetesPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 25.2 Mya to 15.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 11.04 Mya.

Oligocene — about 7 of 24 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 17 of 24 occurrencesMiocene28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–24 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.5 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 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25.2 Mya15.1 Mya27.8 Mya10.5 Mya

24 occurrences of Hemerocoetes minutus 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

24 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

Mount Harris — 45.14°S, 170.94°EMount Harris — 45.13°S, 170.96°EMount Harris — 44.82°S, 170.88°ESouthburn Sand — 44.30°S, 171.00°ESouthburn Sand — 44.42°S, 170.89°ERifle Butts Siltstone — 45.14°S, 170.93°EWharekuri Greensand — 44.66°S, 170.37°EKokoamu Greensand — 44.86°S, 170.54°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.85°S, 170.52°ERifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°EOtekaeike Limestone — 44.81°S, 170.53°ESlip Point Siltstone — 46.03°S, 167.71°ECalamity Point Sandstone — 46.03°S, 167.71°EChatton — 46.11°S, 168.80°EDouble Corner Shellbed — 43.11°S, 172.78°E

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The named rock units Hemerocoetes minutus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hemerocoetes minutus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Hemerocoetes minutus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

165 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Hemerocoetes minutus, 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

2 references

Each of the 24 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 Hemerocoetes minutus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Hemerocoetes minutus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Hemerocoetes minutus 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 itHemerocoetes through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schwarzhans 1980