Nibea

Nibea is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers. The species in this genus are found in the Indo-West Pacific region.

A picture published with the record for Nibea. What it shows has not been checked.

George Henry Ford · 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 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 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 20 of 26 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 26 occurrencesPleistocene — about 6 of 26 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 26 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.7–9.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.3–8.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.9–8.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.5–8.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.1–7.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.7–7.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.3–6.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.9–6.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.5–6.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.1–5.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.7–5.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.333 Mya129 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

26 occurrences of Nibea on record. 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

26 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

6 formations

Seria — 4.81°N, 114.67°ESeria — 4.67°N, 114.64°EMiri — 4.87°N, 114.79°EMiri — 4.87°N, 114.86°ETapu — 24.96°N, 121.38°ELiuchungchi — 23.44°N, 120.59°EChiting — 23.02°N, 120.28°EYokosuka — 35.26°N, 139.72°E

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The named rock units Nibea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

146 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Nibea, 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 26 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 Nibea

Credit
George Henry Ford
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Nibea 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jordan and Thompson 1911