Paradiplospinus aichmeus

Paradiplospinus is a genus of snake mackerels native to the southern oceans.

No picture of Paradiplospinus aichmeus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Paradiplospinus aichmeus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

Time the record covers

At least 3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 21.7 Mya to 18.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 25.2 Mya to 15.9 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 5 occurrencesMiocene25–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21.7 Mya18.7 Mya25.7 Mya15.4 Mya

5 occurrences of Paradiplospinus aichmeus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

5 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

4 formations

Mount Harris — 44.48°S, 170.90°EMount Harris — 45.15°S, 170.93°EWaioha Shellbeds — 34.50°S, 172.96°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.66°S, 170.65°ERifle Butts Siltstone — 45.14°S, 170.93°E

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

Paradiplospinus aichmeus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Paradiplospinus aichmeus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

114 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Paradiplospinus aichmeus, 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

1 reference

Each of the 5 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

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No picture of Paradiplospinus aichmeus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Paradiplospinus aichmeus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Paradiplospinus aichmeus 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

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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.