Ogilbia

Ogilbia is a genus of viviparous brotulas. The generic name honours the Australian naturalist James Douglas Ogilby (1853-1925), for his contribution to the knowledge of the fishes of Australia.

Ogilbia

Williams, J. T.; Carpenter, K. E.; Van Tassell, J. L.; Hoetjes, P.; Toller, W.; Etnoyer, P.; Smith, M. · CC BY 2.5 · 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
DinematichthyinaePBDB
Diet
carnivore, parasitePBDB, for Ophidiiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Ophidiiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ophidiiformes

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 10 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 8 of 10 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 10 occurrencesMiocene63–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–46 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–9.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.9–8.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.0–6.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56 Mya11.63 Mya63 Mya6 Mya

10 occurrences of Ogilbia 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

10 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

Aalter — 50.79°N, 2.78°EAalter — 51.09°N, 3.46°EAalter — 51.19°N, 3.31°ESelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WTashlik — 49.06°N, 31.90°ECalcaire Grossier — 49.31°N, 2.25°ESant’Agata Fossili — 45.07°N, 7.94°EMiretrain Marl — 43.56°N, 1.11°W

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The named rock units Ogilbia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Ogilbia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Ogilbia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

296 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Ogilbia, 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 10 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 Ogilbia

Credit
Williams, J. T.; Carpenter, K. E.; Van Tassell, J. L.; Hoetjes, P.; Toller, W.; Etnoyer, P.; Smith, M.
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ogilbia 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.

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 itDinematichthyinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jordan and Evermann 1898