Pseudorasbora macrocephala
Pseudorasbora is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Gobionidae, the gudgeons. These fishes are native to eastern Asia, including China, Korea, Japan and Siberia. P. parva, has been introduced to regions outside its native range and is considered invasive.

Seotaro , (cleaned up and denoised by Estrilda , and edited by Laitche ) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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 most 4.5 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 20.45 Mya and 15.98 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Pseudorasbora macrocephala 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
1 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
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The named rock units Pseudorasbora macrocephala has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pseudorasbora macrocephala and its relatives
MioceneWhere Pseudorasbora macrocephala and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Aceratherium1 site
- Alligator luicus1 site
- Amphichelydia1 site
- Amphicyon1 site
- Barbus1 site
- Bufo1 site
- Diaceratherium shanwangensis1 site
- Diatomys shantungensis1 site
- Felinae1 site
- Giraffidae1 site
- Heterocemas1 site
- Lagomeryx1 site
- Leuciscus1 site
- Linquornis giangtis1 site
- Meinia asiatica1 site
- Mionatrix1 site
- Palaeochoerus1 site
- Palaeomeryx1 site
- Palaeotapirus1 site
- Plesiaceratherium gracile1 site
- Procynops miocenicus1 site
- Rana1 site
- Shandongornis shanwangensis1 site
- Shanwangia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Pseudorasbora macrocephala, 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 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
Picture of Pseudorasbora macrocephala
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Seotaro , (cleaned up and denoised by Estrilda , and edited by Laitche )
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pseudorasbora macrocephala 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.
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 itFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.