Hygophum benoiti

The Benoit's lanternfish is a species of widespread oceanodromous lanternfish.

Hygophum benoiti

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
Benoit's lanternfishPBDB
Sits inside
HygophumPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Myctophiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Myctophiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Myctophiformes

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 129 ka.

Miocene — about 1 of 18 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 18 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 14 of 18 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.1–1.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.4–698 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences15.98 Mya774 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

18 occurrences of Hygophum benoiti on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

18 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

2 formations

Lindos Bay — 36.09°N, 28.01°ELindos Bay — 36.26°N, 28.17°ELindos Bay — 36.36°N, 28.21°EBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°W

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The named rock units Hygophum benoiti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hygophum benoiti and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Hygophum benoiti and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

261 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Hygophum benoiti, 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

8 references

Each of the 18 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. 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 Hygophum benoiti

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itHygophum through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cocco 1838)