Rhynchoconger

Rhynchoconger is a genus of eels in the family Congridae.

Rhynchoconger

SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC. · 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
CongridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Anguilliformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Anguilliformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Anguilliformes

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 87 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 23 of 87 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 15 of 87 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 36 of 87 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 87 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 87 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 3 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 5 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–25 Mya — about 8 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 4 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 6 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 8 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 4 occurrences10–8.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.4–6.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.3–4.2 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.2–2.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences59.24 Mya129 ka63 Mya0 Mya

87 occurrences of Rhynchoconger on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

87 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

34 formations

Waihao Greensand — 44.40°S, 171.04°EGatun — 9.36°N, 79.84°WRifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°ERifle Butts — 45.08°S, 170.95°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°EHrušky — 48.81°N, 16.63°ENavidad — 33.91°S, 71.84°WNavidad — 33.95°S, 71.87°WRed Bluff — 31.57°N, 88.04°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WEger — 47.92°N, 20.37°EKishima — 33.38°N, 129.93°ELacui — 41.75°S, 73.84°WLacui — 42.69°S, 74.12°WCook Mountain — 30.61°N, 96.57°WCook Mountain — 31.33°N, 95.52°WElmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WPort Campbell Limestone — 37.72°S, 141.93°EJan Juc — 38.33°S, 144.30°EMint Spring Marl — 32.27°N, 90.01°WYazoo — 31.93°N, 91.94°WCantaure — 11.97°N, 70.02°WPorters Creek — 32.02°N, 87.42°WKiscell Clay — 47.85°N, 20.48°EDonzacq Marl — 43.75°N, 0.84°WMiretrain Marl — 43.57°N, 1.11°WNousse — 43.57°N, 1.11°WTainui Shell Bed — 39.95°S, 174.98°EGellibrand — 38.70°S, 143.15°E

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The named rock units Rhynchoconger has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 36 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhynchoconger and its relatives

Miocene

Where Rhynchoconger and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,440 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 75 sites for Rhynchoconger, 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

41 references

Each of the 87 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. 29 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Rhynchoconger

Credit
SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC.
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Rhynchoconger ectenurus · KU:KUI:41599

Smithsonian Open Access 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.

Keep going

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jordan and Hobbs 1925