Pelotretis
No picture of Pelotretis was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Pelotretis itself, so it was not used. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Pelotretis 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 most 3 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 2.4 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Pelotretis on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
1 occurrences- Pliocene94%
- 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.
Pelotretis and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Pelotretis and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Aldrichetta forsteri1 site
- Arnoglossus grenfelli1 site
- Auchenoceros1 site
- Galeichthys ohei1 site
- Hemerocoetes macrophthalmus1 site
- Hemerocoetes monopterygius1 site
- Lampanyctodes hectoris1 site
- Macruronus novaezeelandiae1 site
- Merluccius1 site
- Peltorhamphus flexuodorsalis1 site
- Peltorhamphus tenuis1 site
- Pseudophycis barbata1 site
- Pseudophycis breviuscula1 site
- Samaris validus1 site
- Sardinops sagax1 site
- Sphyraena1 site
- Sprattus1 site
- Symbolophorus boops1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Pelotretis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 1 occurrence 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
Media content1
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Pelotretis flavilatus · UF:Fish:81855
No picture of Pelotretis was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Pelotretis itself, so it was not used.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Pelotretis 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.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waite 1911