Pardachirus sulci
Pardachirus is a genus of soles mainly native to coastal water in the Indo-Pacific. A single species, P. poropterus is restricted to estuaries and lower sections of freshwater streams. At least some species in the genus are toxic.

Richard Ling from NSW, Australia · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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.
Time the record covers
At least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 13.82 Mya.
3 occurrences of Pardachirus sulci 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
3 occurrencesThese 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.
Pardachirus sulci and its relatives
MioceneWhere Pardachirus sulci and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
156 taxa- Albula dorsalis3 sites
- Arnoglossus3 sites
- Atherinomorus3 sites
- Buglossidium frequens3 sites
- Cepola rubescens3 sites
- Citharus3 sites
- Conger3 sites
- Dentex3 sites
- Gephyroberyx darwini3 sites
- Lesueurigobius3 sites
- Lobianchia dofleini3 sites
- Maurolicus muelleri3 sites
- Physiculus huloti3 sites
- Polyipnus weitzmani3 sites
- Pseudophichthys3 sites
- Trachinus3 sites
- Acropoma nolfi2 sites
- Antigonia capros2 sites
- Argentina sphyraena2 sites
- Ariomma2 sites
- Ariosoma balearica2 sites
- Atherinidarum bavayi2 sites
- Bembrops vandeveldae2 sites
- Bregmaceros2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pardachirus sulci, 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 referenceEach of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Pardachirus sulci
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Richard Ling from NSW, Australia
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pardachirus sulci 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Pardachirus”
- 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 itFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.