Myripristis

Myripristis is a genus of soldierfishes.

Myripristis

Fernando Herranz Martín · GPL · 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
HolocentridaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 25 occurrencesEocene — about 16 of 25 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 25 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 8 of 25 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 25 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–9.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.8–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48.07 Mya13.82 Mya57 Mya4 Mya

25 occurrences of Myripristis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

25 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

11 formations

London Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°EStone City — 30.67°N, 96.56°WHrušky — 48.81°N, 16.63°ECook Mountain — 30.61°N, 96.57°WCook Mountain — 32.03°N, 88.70°WElmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WYazoo — 31.93°N, 91.94°WCantaure — 11.97°N, 70.02°WCane River — 31.88°N, 93.37°WDonzacq Marl — 43.75°N, 0.84°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.04°W“upper” Lisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°W

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The named rock units Myripristis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Myripristis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Myripristis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

687 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Myripristis, 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 25 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 content2

Picture of Myripristis

Credit
Fernando Herranz Martín
Licence
GPL
Commercial use
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CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
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Specimen
Myripristis intermedius · MCZ:Ich:30243

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 itHolocentridae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cuvier 1827