Paralichthys californicus

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Also called

California halibutPBDB

Sits inside

ParalichthysPBDB

Diet

carnivorePBDB, for Pleuronectiformes

Life habit

nektobenthicPBDB, for Pleuronectiformes

Motility

actively mobilePBDB, for Pleuronectiformes

• Pliocene17%
• Pleistocene67%
• Holocene17%

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.

Where Paralichthys californicus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene. Draw the map

• Cymatogaster aggregata6 sites
• Engraulis mordax6 sites
• Galeorhinus galeus6 sites
• Genyonemus lineatus6 sites
• Myliobatis californica6 sites
• Porichthys notatus6 sites
• Seriphus politus6 sites
• Triakis semifasciata6 sites
• Atherinopsis californiensis5 sites
• Carcharodon carcharias5 sites
• Chilara taylori5 sites
• Lepidogobius lepidus5 sites
• Ophidion scrippsae5 sites
• Raja5 sites
• Squatina californica5 sites
• Carcharhinus4 sites
• Citharichthys sordidus4 sites
• Citharichthys stigmaeus4 sites
• Heterodontus francisci4 sites
• Isurus oxyrinchus4 sites
• Merluccius productus4 sites
• Porichthys myriaster4 sites
• Semicossyphus pulcher4 sites
• Alopias vulpinus3 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Paralichthys californicus, 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.

• Fish remains, mostly otoliths and teeth, from the Palos Verdes Sand (Late Pleistocene) of CaliforniaFitch, 1970 · Contributions in Science, Los Angeles County Museum · journal article2
• Preliminary List of the Marine Fishes and Other Vertebrate Remains from the Late Pleistocene Palos Verdes Sand Formation at Costa Mesa, Orange County, CaliforniaLong, 1993 · PaleoBios · journal article1
• Otoliths and other fish remains from the Chumash Midden at Rincon Point (SBa-1) Santa Barbara-Ventura counties, CaliforniaHuddleston and Barker, 1978 · Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Contributions in Science · journal article1
• Otoliths and other fish remains from a Long Beach, California, Pliocene depositFitch and Reimer, 1967 · Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences · journal article1
• Fish records from the Pleistocene of southern California in the collections of the Los Angeles County MuseumKanakoff, 1956 · Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences · journal article1

Each of the 6 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.

What may have been alongside itParalichthys through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ayres 1859)