Hygophum circularis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HygophumPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Myctophiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Myctophiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Myctophiformes
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 18.7 Mya to 7.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
18 occurrences of Hygophum circularis 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
18 occurrencesThese 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
6 formations
- Mount Harris Formation3
- Rifle Butts Siltstone Formation2
- Slip Point Siltstone Formation1
- Calamity Point Sandstone Formation1
- Navidad Formation1
- Ranquil Formation1
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The named rock units Hygophum circularis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hygophum circularis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Hygophum circularis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
188 taxa- Auchenoceros bicaudatus10 sites
- Echiodon teres10 sites
- Acropoma serrata9 sites
- Paraulopus9 sites
- Coelorinchus divulgatus8 sites
- Diaphus curvatus8 sites
- Caulopsetta arnoglossoides7 sites
- Euclichthys novaezeelandiae7 sites
- Gnathophis ornatus7 sites
- Parapercis finlayi7 sites
- Argentina subfrigida6 sites
- Hemerocoetes minutus6 sites
- Lactarius sigmoidalis6 sites
- Maurolicus aegrotus6 sites
- Bregmaceros prosoponus5 sites
- Centroberyx worthyi5 sites
- Congridarum carinatus5 sites
- Congridarum grantmackiei5 sites
- Lepidorhynchus frosti5 sites
- Leptoscopus progressus5 sites
- Notoscopelus scopelopsoides5 sites
- Pomadasyidarum longicaudatus5 sites
- Protomyctophum ahunga5 sites
- Scopelus regularis5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Hygophum circularis, 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
5 references- Reconstruction of the fossil marine bony fish fauna (Teleostei) from the Eocene to Pleistocene of New Zealand by means of otoliths. With studies of Recent congroid, morid and trachinoid otoliths11
- Fish otoliths from the early Miocene of Chile: a window into the evolution of marine bony fishes in the Southeast Pacific2
- Otoliths of Fishes from the Tertiary Formations of New Zealand2
- Description of fish otoliths from the Tertiary formationsof Atcheen, Northern Sumatra2
- Fish otoliths from the New Zealand Tertiary1
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 content0
No picture of Hygophum circularis 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 Hygophum circularis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hygophum circularis 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 itHygophum through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Frost 1924)