Synodus

Synodus is a genus of fish in the family Synodontidae found in Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans.

Synodus

Izuzuki · 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SynodontinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Aulopiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Aulopiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Aulopiformes

Time the record covers

At least 119 million years on record.

The record covers at least 119.57 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 18 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 18 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 18 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 18 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 9 of 18 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 18 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 18 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences17–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.3–4.1 Mya — about 7 occurrences4.1–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences119.57 Mya129 ka124 Mya0 Mya

18 occurrences of Synodus 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

18 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

5 formations

Tamiami — 27.34°N, 82.51°WChijinpu — 39.92°N, 96.75°ERaz-el-Ain — 35.71°N, 0.64°WMoodys Branch — 31.90°N, 88.69°WRed Bluff Clay — 31.65°N, 87.71°W

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The named rock units Synodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Synodus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Synodus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

473 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Synodus, 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

12 references

Each of the 18 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. 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 Synodus

Credit
Izuzuki
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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.

Keep going

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scopoli 1777