Otolithes

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

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

Dinh D. Tran · CC BY 3.0 · 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 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 129 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 91 occurrencesPaleocene — about 3 of 91 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 18 of 91 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 14 of 91 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 38 of 91 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 15 of 91 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 91 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 9 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 7 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 6 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 5 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 7 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 13 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 11 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences61.66 Mya2.58 Mya67 Mya0 Mya

91 occurrences of Otolithes on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

91 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

10 formations

Barton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WBarton Beds — 50.85°N, 1.78°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WSant’Agata Fossili — 45.07°N, 7.94°ESant’Agata Fossili — 45.07°N, 7.97°EBecton — 50.74°N, 1.69°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°Wfacies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°ELindos Bay — 36.26°N, 28.17°EAgatdal — 70.58°N, 53.10°WHrušky — 48.81°N, 16.63°EQuilon — 8.81°N, 76.65°E

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The named rock units Otolithes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 68 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Otolithes and its relatives

Miocene

Where Otolithes and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,182 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Otolithes, 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

23 references

Each of the 91 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. 11 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 Otolithes

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Specimen
Otolithes ruber · KU:KUI:10526

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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What may have been alongside itFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Oken 1817