Hoplobrotula

Hoplobrotula is a genus of cusk-eels.

Hoplobrotula

Pocho · CC BY-SA 2.1 jp · via Wikidata/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
OphidiidaePBDB
Diet
carnivore, parasitePBDB, for Ophidiiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Ophidiiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ophidiiformes

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 129 ka.

Paleocene — about 1 of 49 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 16 of 49 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 9 of 49 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 20 of 49 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 49 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 49 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–46 Mya — about 3 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–8.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.4–6.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.3–4.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.2–2.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.1–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences56 Mya774 ka63 Mya0 Mya

49 occurrences of Hoplobrotula on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

49 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

13 formations

Boom Clay — 51.09°N, 4.40°EBoom Clay — 51.19°N, 4.32°ESelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WCalcaire Grossier — 49.31°N, 2.25°EElmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WJan Juc — 38.33°S, 144.30°ETashlik — 49.06°N, 31.90°ELa Meseta — 64.23°S, 56.67°WBerchem — 51.20°N, 4.44°EFyansford — 38.23°S, 145.02°ELede — 50.92°N, 3.78°ESant’Agata Fossili — 45.07°N, 7.94°EChiting — 23.02°N, 120.28°EArgille Azzurre — 43.31°N, 11.49°E

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The named rock units Hoplobrotula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hoplobrotula and its relatives

Miocene

Where Hoplobrotula and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

923 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Hoplobrotula, 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

27 references

Each of the 49 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. 15 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 content1

Picture of Hoplobrotula

Credit
Pocho
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.1 jp
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Hoplobrotula was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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

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 itOphidiidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gill 1864