Neoscombrops

Verilus is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Malakichthyidae found in the Atlantic.

Neoscombrops

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcropomatidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 43 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.9 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 52 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Eocene — about 7 of 12 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 12 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 12 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 12 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–6.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.0–4.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.3–2.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48.9 Mya5.333 Mya53 Mya3 Mya

12 occurrences of Neoscombrops 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

12 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

1 formation

Marnes de Saint-Etienne-d’Orthe — 43.57°N, 1.10°W

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The named rock units Neoscombrops 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.

Neoscombrops and its relatives

Eocene

Where Neoscombrops and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

257 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Neoscombrops, 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

Each of the 12 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Neoscombrops

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Neoscombrops was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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

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 itAcropomatidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gilchrist 1922