Micromesistius

Micromesistius, the blue whitings, is a genus of cods.

Micromesistius

Gervais et Boulart · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GadidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Gadiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Gadiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gadiformes

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 12.8 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 13.82 Mya to 129 ka.

Miocene — about 3 of 32 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 15 of 32 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 14 of 32 occurrencesPleistocene14–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.3–4.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.8–4.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.3–3.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.3–2.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.9–2.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.4–1.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.9–1.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.4–955 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences955 ka–477 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences477 ka–0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences12.8 Mya774 ka14.3 Mya0 Mya

32 occurrences of Micromesistius 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

32 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

7 formations

Lindos Bay — 36.09°N, 28.01°ELindos Bay — 36.26°N, 28.17°ELindos Bay — 36.36°N, 28.21°ETsurevsky — 44.41°N, 39.79°EHrušky — 48.81°N, 16.63°EStudienka — 48.44°N, 17.16°ECalcare Massiccio — 42.93°N, 11.87°ELindos — 36.07°N, 28.05°EArgille Azzurre — 43.31°N, 11.49°E

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The named rock units Micromesistius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Micromesistius and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Micromesistius and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

380 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Micromesistius, 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

15 references

Each of the 32 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. 3 further references are not listed. 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 Micromesistius

Credit
Gervais et Boulart
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Micromesistius was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was 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 itGadidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gill 1863