Leuciscus
Searched as Leuciscus cf. souffia. The Paleobiology Database treats Leuciscus as the accepted name.
Leuciscus is a genus of freshwater and brackish water ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related species. They are inland water fishes commonly called Eurasian daces. The genus is widespread from Europe to Siberia. Species broadly distributed in Europe include the common dace Leuciscus leuciscus and the ide L. idus.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyprinidaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Cypriniformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Cypriniformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cypriniformes
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Cypriniformes
Time the record covers
At most 1.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 3.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Leuciscus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
2 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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.
Leuciscus and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Leuciscus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
613 taxa- Barbus8 sites
- Rana7 sites
- Tinca7 sites
- Bithynia6 sites
- Mimomys6 sites
- Scardinius6 sites
- Esox5 sites
- Esox lucius5 sites
- Sorex5 sites
- Stephanorhinus etruscus5 sites
- Testudo5 sites
- Trionyx5 sites
- Aves4 sites
- Bufo4 sites
- Cervus4 sites
- Cyprinidae4 sites
- Equus4 sites
- Gyraulus4 sites
- Pisidium4 sites
- Plantae4 sites
- Prolagus oeningensis4 sites
- Rhinocerotidae4 sites
- Sus scrofa4 sites
- Anas3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Leuciscus, 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- Pliocene Volcanic Terrain of the South Caucasus: The Missing Link in Eurasian Palaeobiogeography1
- The Afro–Asian labeonine genus Garra Hamilton, 1822 (Teleostei, Cyprinidae) in the Pliocene of Central Armenia: Palaeoecological and palaeobiogeographical implications1
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Leuciscus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- faerbogdan99
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Leuciscus”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCyprinidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cuvier 1817