Myctophum licatae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MyctophumPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Myctophiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Myctophiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Myctophiformes
Time the record covers
At most 6.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Myctophum licatae 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
15 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Myctophum licatae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Myctophum licatae and its relatives
MioceneWhere Myctophum licatae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
183 taxa- Bregmaceros albyi12 sites
- Maurolicus muelleri11 sites
- Myctophum dorsale10 sites
- Syngnathus albyi10 sites
- Sardina crassa9 sites
- Alosa elongata6 sites
- Paralepis albyi6 sites
- Capros5 sites
- Lepidopus5 sites
- Alosa crassa4 sites
- Etrumeus boulei4 sites
- Myctophum columnae4 sites
- Scomber colias4 sites
- Acanthuridae3 sites
- Arnoglossus sauvagei3 sites
- Boops roulei3 sites
- Chilomycterus acanthodes3 sites
- Diaphus edwardsi3 sites
- Gonostoma albyi3 sites
- Microchirus abropteryx3 sites
- Paracalamus doumergui3 sites
- Scomberesox licatae3 sites
- Spratelloides gracilis3 sites
- Trachurus trachurus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Myctophum licatae, 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
8 references- Paléobiodiversité et paléoenvironnements: l’exemple des gisements de poissons téléostéens du Messinien préévaporitique d’Oran et du bassin du Chélif (Algérie)4
- Découverte d'une ichthyofaune marine dans le Messinien préévaporitique de la Messara (Crète centrale, Grèce) : interprétation paléoécologique3
- The Tortonian fish fauna of Gavdos Island (Greece)2
- Additions à l'ichthyofaune tortonienne du bassin de Ierapetra (Crète orientale, Grèce)2
- L’ichthyofaune messinienne du bassin de Sorbas (Almería, Espagne) et ses rapports avec l’en- vironnement sédimentaire1
- A new marine fish fauna from the pre-evaporitic Messinian of Gavdos Island (Greece)1
- Analyse séquentielle d'un nouveau gisement de poissons fossiles du Messinien marin diatomitique : Masseria il Salto près de Caltagirone (Province de Catane, Sicile)1
- Synopsis des poissons tertiaires de Licata1
Each of the 15 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
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No picture of Myctophum licatae 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 Myctophum licatae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Myctophum licatae 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 itMyctophum through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sauvage 1880