Peltorhamphus fordycei
No picture of Peltorhamphus fordycei was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Peltorhamphus fordycei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PeltorhamphusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Pleuronectiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Pleuronectiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Pleuronectiformes
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 25.2 Mya to 13.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 11.04 Mya.
3 occurrences of Peltorhamphus fordycei 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.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Peltorhamphus fordycei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Peltorhamphus fordycei and its relatives
MioceneWhere Peltorhamphus fordycei and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Arnoglossus purus2 sites
- Trachinoideorum ultimus2 sites
- Diaphus manneringi1 site
- Echiodon pegasus1 site
- Gnathophis umbrellabius1 site
- Hemerocoetes minutus1 site
- Myctophum tamumuensis1 site
- Optivus moko1 site
- Parapercis finlayi1 site
- Trachinoideorum1 site
- Uranoscopus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Peltorhamphus fordycei, 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
2 references- 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 otoliths2
- Fish otoliths from the New Zealand Tertiary1
Each 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Peltorhamphus fordycei was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Peltorhamphus fordycei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Peltorhamphus fordycei was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.
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What may have been alongside itPeltorhamphus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schwarzhans 1980)