Mylopharyngodon sp.

Mylopharyngodon is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Xenocyprididae, the East Asian minnows or sharpbellies. There is one extant and one extinct species in this genus.

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Leo Nico, (United States Geological Survey) (Original uploader was Zp at cs.wikipedia ) · 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.

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 4 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence37.71 Mya129 ka49 Mya0 Mya

4 occurrences of Mylopharyngodon sp. on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

4 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

2 formations

Dongjun — 23.58°N, 107.23°ETunggur — 43.41°N, 113.12°E

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The named rock units Mylopharyngodon sp. 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.

Mylopharyngodon sp. and its relatives

Eocene

Where Mylopharyngodon sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

105 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Mylopharyngodon sp., 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

4 references

Each of the 4 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 content2

Picture of Mylopharyngodon sp.

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Leo Nico, (United States Geological Survey) (Original uploader was Zp at cs.wikipedia )
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Specimen
Mylopharyngodon piceus · UF:Fish:165839

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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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.