Parascombrops
Paracombrops is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes from the family Synagropidae. The fish in this genus are found in the Indo-Pacific.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcropomatidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At least 44 million years on record.
The record covers at least 45.7 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 52 Mya to 11.7 ka.
32 occurrences of Parascombrops on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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- Eocene19%
- Oligocene19%
- Miocene46%
- Pliocene9%
- Pleistocene6%
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
8 formations
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group3
- Sant’Agata Fossili Formation2
- Alzey Formation1
- Bowden Formation1
- Kiscell Clay Formation1
- Eger Formation1
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The named rock units Parascombrops has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Parascombrops and its relatives
MioceneWhere Parascombrops and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
870 taxa- Bregmaceros12 sites
- Otolithus labiatus12 sites
- Diaphus10 sites
- Lesueurigobius10 sites
- Apogon9 sites
- Citharus9 sites
- Gadiculus argenteus9 sites
- Maurolicus muelleri9 sites
- Cepola8 sites
- Dentex8 sites
- Hygophum8 sites
- Lobianchia dofleini8 sites
- Physiculus huloti8 sites
- Diaphus cavallonis7 sites
- Phycis7 sites
- Pomadasys incisus7 sites
- Pseudophichthys7 sites
- Pterothrissus umbonatus7 sites
- Antigonia capros6 sites
- Deltentosteus6 sites
- Diaphus pedemontanus6 sites
- Diaphus splendidus6 sites
- Epigonus6 sites
- Gobius6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Parascombrops, 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
16 references- Middle and late Eocene fish otoliths from the eastern and southern USA4
- Fish otoliths from the pre-evaporitic (Early Messinian) sediments of northern Italy: their stratigraphic and palaeobiogeographic significance4
- Otolithes de poissons du paléocanyon de saubrigues (chattien à langhien), aquitaine méridionale, France4
- Reconstruction of the fossil marine bony fish fauna (Teleostei) from the Eocene to Pleistocene of New Zealand by means of otoliths. With studies of Recent congroid, morid and trachinoid otoliths3
- Tortonian teleost otoliths from northern Italy: taxonomic synthesis and stratigraphic significance3
- Tortonian fish otoliths from turbiditic deposits in Northern Italy: Taxonomic and stratigraphic significance2
- Fish otoliths from the Late Oligocene (Eger and Kiscell Formations) in the Eger area (northeastern Hungary)2
- Otoliti fossili terziari dell'Emilia2
- Fossil fish otoliths from the Chibanian Miyata Formation, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, with comments on the paleoenvironment1
- Fish otoliths from the Lutetian of the Aquitaine Basin (SW France), a breakthrough in the knowledge of the European Eocene ichthyofauna1
- Die Alzey-Formation der klassichen Lokalitat Wlschberg bei Waldbockelheim (Rupelium, Oligozan, Mainzer Becken) - Ergebnisse neuer Grabungen1
- Pleistocene fish otoliths from the Mediterranean Basin: a synthesis1
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. 4 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 Parascombrops
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Renju Ravi
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Parascombrops was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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 itAcropomatidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Alcock 1889