Palaeogadus

Palaeogadus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MerlucciidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Gadiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Gadiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gadiformes

Time the record covers

At least 43 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Paleocene — about 4 of 32 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 32 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 20 of 32 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 32 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 32 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–59 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–32 Mya — about 6 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 6 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 6 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–24 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–10 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences10–8.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.1–6.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.2–4.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59.24 Mya15.98 Mya63 Mya4 Mya

32 occurrences of Palaeogadus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

32 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

Menilite — 49.74°N, 21.61°EMenilite — 49.63°N, 22.57°EMenilite — 49.75°N, 21.94°EBoom Clay — 51.13°N, 4.26°EBoom Clay — 51.09°N, 4.40°ELellinge Greensand — 55.63°N, 12.62°ELellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°EBassevelde Sand — 51.08°N, 4.35°EElmore — 50.80°N, 1.21°WAlzey — 49.83°N, 7.72°EKuma Horizon — 43.22°N, 40.37°EMenelite — 49.93°N, 22.02°ETylawa Limestones — 49.53°N, 21.93°EBoom — 51.12°N, 4.36°E

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The named rock units Palaeogadus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeogadus and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Palaeogadus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

844 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Palaeogadus, 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

18 references

Each of the 32 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. 6 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 content1

Picture of Palaeogadus

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Palaeogadus 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMerlucciidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Von Rath 1859