Parapercis

Parapercis is a genus of sandperches belonging to the family Pinguipedidae.

Parapercis

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PinguipedidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 43 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.9 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 52 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Eocene — about 5 of 72 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 20 of 72 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 44 of 72 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 72 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–45 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 4 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 8 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 10 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 8 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 6 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 10 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 12 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.0–4.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.3–2.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence48.9 Mya5.333 Mya53 Mya3 Mya

72 occurrences of Parapercis 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

72 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

18 formations

Mount Harris — 44.20°S, 170.71°EMount Harris — 44.48°S, 170.90°EMount Harris — 45.15°S, 170.93°EMount Harris — 45.13°S, 170.96°EMount Harris — 44.30°S, 170.99°EMount Harris — 44.49°S, 171.01°EMount Harris — 44.82°S, 170.88°ERifle Butts Siltstone — 45.14°S, 170.93°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.85°S, 170.52°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.66°S, 170.65°ESouthburn Sand — 44.30°S, 171.00°ESouthburn Sand — 44.37°S, 170.91°EWharekuri Greensand — 44.70°S, 170.43°ECalamity Point Sandstone — 46.03°S, 167.71°EGutingkeng — 23.00°N, 120.42°EGutingkeng — 22.84°N, 120.41°EFyansford — 38.23°S, 145.02°EKokoamu Greensand — 44.86°S, 170.54°ERifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°EWaihao Greensand — 44.40°S, 171.04°EWaioha Shellbeds — 34.50°S, 172.96°EPakaurangi — 36.24°S, 174.28°EWaitoura Marl — 44.78°S, 170.57°EOtekaeike Limestone — 44.81°S, 170.53°ESlip Point Siltstone — 46.03°S, 167.71°EFouraye Siltstone — 46.03°S, 167.71°EDouble Corner Shellbed — 43.11°S, 172.78°E

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The named rock units Parapercis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Parapercis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Parapercis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

292 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Parapercis, 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

5 references

Each of the 72 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 content2

Picture of Parapercis

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Parapercis cylindrica · UWFC:ADULT COLLECTION:UW 011988

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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

Keep going

What may have been alongside itPinguipedidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bleeker 1963