Pythonichthys panulus
No picture of Pythonichthys panulus 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 Pythonichthys panulus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PythonichthysPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Anguilliformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Anguilliformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Anguilliformes
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 Pythonichthys panulus 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 Pythonichthys panulus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pythonichthys panulus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Pythonichthys panulus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Achirus australis1 site
- Achirus chungkuz1 site
- Citharichthys vergens1 site
- Coelorinchus fidelis1 site
- Lepophidium chonorum1 site
- Platycephalidae1 site
- Rhynchoconger chiloensis1 site
- Sirembola supersa1 site
- Steindachneria goederti1 site
- Steindachneria svennielseni1 site
- Vinciguerria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Pythonichthys panulus, 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Pythonichthys panulus 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 Pythonichthys panulus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pythonichthys panulus 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 itPythonichthys through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schwarzhans and Nielsen 2021