Micropogonias

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SciaenidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At least 5.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.
6 occurrences of Micropogonias on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
6 occurrences- Miocene17%
- Pliocene33%
- Pleistocene49%
- Holocene2%
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
4 formations
- Yorktown Formation · Chesapeake Group1
- Tamiami Formation1
- Urumaco Formation1
- Bermont Formation1
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The named rock units Micropogonias has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Micropogonias and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Micropogonias and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
609 taxa- Cynoscion4 sites
- Carcharhinus leucas3 sites
- Galeocerdo cuvier3 sites
- Pogonias cromis3 sites
- Prionotus3 sites
- Archosargus probatocephalus2 sites
- Bathytoshia centroura2 sites
- Carcharhinus plumbeus2 sites
- Carcharias taurus2 sites
- Carcharodon carcharias2 sites
- Carcharodon hastalis2 sites
- Centropristis2 sites
- Citharichthys2 sites
- Clupeidae2 sites
- Dasyatis2 sites
- Equetus2 sites
- Haemulon2 sites
- Hemipristis serra2 sites
- Isurus oxyrinchus2 sites
- Myliobatis2 sites
- Negaprion brevirostris2 sites
- Opsanus2 sites
- Otodus megalodon2 sites
- Pristis pectinata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Micropogonias, 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
6 references- Late Pleistocene-Holocene fossils from Mirim Lake, Southern Brazil, and their paleoenvironmental significance: I - Vertebrates1
- Giant-toothed White Sharks and Wide-toothed Mako (Lamnidae) from the Venezuela Neogene: Their Role in the Caribbean, Shallow-water Fish Assemblage1
- Integrated taphonomy of an avian death assemblage in marine sediments from the late Pliocene of Florida1
- Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes from the early Pleistocene Leisey Shell Pit local fauna, Hillsborough County, Florida1
- Late Pleistocene-early Holocene teleostean otoliths from a Mississippi River mudlump1
- Teleost fish otoliths from Lee Creek Mine, Aurora, North Carolina (Yorktown Formation: Pliocene)1
Each of the 6 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 content1

Picture of Micropogonias
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Micropogonias 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bonaparte 1831