Sillaginodes

Julian Finn / Museum Victoria · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
- SillaginidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.9 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 18.7 Mya to 3.6 Mya.
7 occurrences of Sillaginodes 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
7 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
- Southburn Sand Formation3
- Mount Harris Formation2
- Port Campbell Limestone Formation1
- Rifle Butts Siltstone Formation1
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The named rock units Sillaginodes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sillaginodes and its relatives
MioceneWhere Sillaginodes and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
76 taxa- Acropoma serrata5 sites
- Euclichthys novaezeelandiae5 sites
- Waitahana sagittiformis5 sites
- Auchenoceros bicaudatus4 sites
- Caulopsetta arnoglossoides4 sites
- Gnathophis ornatus4 sites
- Hemerocoetes minutus4 sites
- Macruronus pukeuriensis4 sites
- Parapercis finlayi4 sites
- Platycephalus maxwelli4 sites
- Pomadasyidarum longicaudatus4 sites
- Tonganago coplandi4 sites
- Carapus praecursor3 sites
- Clupeidarum incisiareatus3 sites
- Coelorinchus preaustralis3 sites
- Encheliophis strigosus3 sites
- Lepidorhynchus frosti3 sites
- Leptoscopus progressus3 sites
- Sprattus3 sites
- Waitakia robusta3 sites
- Argentina subfrigida2 sites
- Arnoglossus longus2 sites
- Arnoglossus novus2 sites
- Austrophycis pseudomegalops2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Sillaginodes, 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
3 references- Reconstruction of the fossil marine bony fish fauna (Teleostei) from the Eocene to Pleistocene of New Zealand by means of otoliths. With studies of Recent congroid, morid and trachinoid otoliths5
- Tertiäre Otolithen aus South Australia und Victoria (Australien)1
- Fish otoliths from the New Zealand Tertiary1
Each of the 7 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
Media content1

Picture of Sillaginodes
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Julian Finn / Museum Victoria
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Sillaginodes 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 itSillaginidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gill 1862