Mene purdyi

Mene purdyi an extinct species of ray-finned fish in the genus Mene, from Late Thanetian-aged marine deposits in northern Peru. M. purdyi is currently known only from a single skull and a few post-cranial bones. M. purdyi is among the largest, if not the largest, members of the genus, as the skull suggests that it would have been over 40 centimetres (16 in) in life. The living species, M. maculata, by comparison, grows to an average length of 18 centimetres (7.1 in).

Mene purdyi

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MenePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At most 3.3 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 59.24 Mya and 56 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Mene purdyi on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

1 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.

Mene purdyi and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Mene purdyi and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

10 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Mene purdyi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 content1

Picture of Mene purdyi

Credit
No machine-readable author provided. Dryke assumed (based on copyright claims).
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Mene purdyi 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.

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 itMene through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Friedman and Johnson 2005