Hygophum rotundum
No picture of Hygophum rotundum 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 rotundum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Hygophum rotundum 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
2 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Hygophum rotundum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hygophum rotundum and its relatives
MioceneWhere Hygophum rotundum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Coelorhynchus2 sites
- Diaphus hataii2 sites
- Acropoma1 site
- Aldrovandia1 site
- Atheresthes1 site
- Bathylagus1 site
- Benthodesmus1 site
- Ceratoscopelus1 site
- Chauliodus1 site
- Clidoderma1 site
- Cyclothone1 site
- Diaphus1 site
- Diaphus biatlanticus1 site
- Evermannella1 site
- Gonostoma1 site
- Howella1 site
- Ichthyococcus1 site
- Lampadena1 site
- Lampadena urophaos1 site
- Lampanyctus1 site
- Lampanyctus (Lampanyctus) niger1 site
- Lampanyctus regalis1 site
- Macrouridae1 site
- Malakichthys1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Hygophum rotundum, 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- Deep fish assemblage from the Middle Miocene Morozaki Group, southern part of Chita Penninsula, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan1
- Some Miocene fish otoliths from the Yakuoji Formation, Tsu, Mie Prefecture1
Each of the 2 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 Hygophum rotundum 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 rotundum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hygophum rotundum 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.
Keep going
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. Ohe and Araki 1973