Praescomberesox pacificus
No picture of Praescomberesox pacificus 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 Praescomberesox pacificus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PraescomberesoxPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Beloniformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Beloniformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Beloniformes
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Praescomberesox pacificus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
4 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Praescomberesox pacificus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Praescomberesox pacificus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Praescomberesox pacificus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Bregmaceros kreyenhagus2 sites
- Eoexocoetus eocenicus2 sites
- Kreyenhagenius joaquinensis2 sites
- Parapolymixia californica2 sites
- Parastenodus gillensis2 sites
- Pseudoetringus kreyenhagius2 sites
- Beckius plicatus1 site
- Beryx eogenus1 site
- Beryx sanjoaquinensis1 site
- Caranx orolomaensis1 site
- Cyclolepoides1 site
- Cyclolepoides tuberculatus1 site
- Eoscombrus chaneyensis1 site
- Iniomus fossilis1 site
- Paramorone eocenica1 site
- Wisslerius sardinelloides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Praescomberesox pacificus, 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 4 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 Praescomberesox pacificus 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 Praescomberesox pacificus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Praescomberesox pacificus 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 itPraescomberesox through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. David 1946