Peristedion

Peristedion is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Peristediinae, the armoured gurnards or armored sea robins. These fishes are found in Atlantic and Indo-West Pacific ocean waters.

Peristedion

NOAA's Fisheries Collection; Collection of Brandi Noble · Public Domain · 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
TriglidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Scorpaeniformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Scorpaeniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Scorpaeniformes

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesOligocene — about 4 of 10 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 5 of 10 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 10 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 10 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–9.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.6–8.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.5–7.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.4–6.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.3–5.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.2–4.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.0–2.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23.04 Mya5.333 Mya34.5 Mya2 Mya

10 occurrences of Peristedion 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

10 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

1 formation

Gaindorf — 48.49°N, 15.72°E

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The named rock units Peristedion has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Peristedion and its relatives

Miocene

Where Peristedion and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

324 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Peristedion, 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

8 references

Each of the 10 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 content1

Picture of Peristedion

Credit
NOAA's Fisheries Collection; Collection of Brandi Noble
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Peristedion was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lacépède 1802