Sparus elegantulus
No picture of Sparus elegantulus 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 Sparus elegantulus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SparusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
11 occurrences of Sparus elegantulus 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
11 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
7 formations
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group3
- Catahoula Formation1
- Weches Formation · Claiborne Group1
- “upper” Lisbon Formation1
- Moodys Branch Formation1
- Piney Point Formation · Claiborne Group1
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The named rock units Sparus elegantulus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Sparus elegantulus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Sparus elegantulus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
152 taxa- Sciaena9 sites
- Protanago nonsector8 sites
- Pterothrissus umbonatus8 sites
- Symmetrosulcus8 sites
- Allomorone burlesonis7 sites
- Bauzaia7 sites
- Brazosiella kokeni7 sites
- Bregmaceros troelli7 sites
- Haemulon7 sites
- Lactarius amplus7 sites
- Pseudophichthys7 sites
- Pythonichthys7 sites
- Caproidarum serratus6 sites
- Ekokenia eporrecta6 sites
- Myripristis6 sites
- Trachinus6 sites
- Citharus5 sites
- Paraconger5 sites
- Preophidion5 sites
- Preophidion petropolis5 sites
- Protanago sector5 sites
- Sciaena pseudoradians5 sites
- Blennius4 sites
- Clupeidae4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Sparus elegantulus, 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- Middle and late Eocene fish otoliths from the eastern and southern USA9
- Late Oligocene fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) from the Catahoula Formation in Wayne County, Mississippi, USA1
- Marine fishes (Elasmobranchii, Teleostei) from the Glendon Limestone Member of the Byram Formation (Oligocene, Rupelian) at site AWa-9, Washington County, Alabama, USA, including a new species of gobiid (Gobiiformes: Gobiidae)1
Each of the 11 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Sparus elegantulus 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 Sparus elegantulus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sparus elegantulus 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 itSparus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Koken 1888)