Trachichthodes pulcher
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrachichthodesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Beryciformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Beryciformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Beryciformes
Time the record covers
At least 9.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.9 Mya to 39.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 52 Mya to 36.7 Mya.
11 occurrences of Trachichthodes pulcher 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 occurrences- Eocene100%
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 Trachichthodes pulcher has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Trachichthodes pulcher and its relatives
EoceneWhere Trachichthodes pulcher and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
95 taxa- Rhynchoconger eocenicus8 sites
- Macrurulus immanis7 sites
- Platycephalus parapercoides7 sites
- Scopelosaurus brevirostris7 sites
- Symphysanodon inamata7 sites
- Antigonia artata6 sites
- Neoscombrops vetustus6 sites
- Pseudaequalobythites biplex6 sites
- Serranidarum dentatus6 sites
- Tonganago fastigatus6 sites
- Tonganago wharenga6 sites
- Aulopus pristinus5 sites
- Cephalopholis aotearoa5 sites
- Conger davidsmithi5 sites
- Maorigadus anarchicus5 sites
- Maxwelliella urbana5 sites
- Parapercis richardsoni5 sites
- Pseudanthias multicrenatus5 sites
- Acropoma aurora4 sites
- Ampheristus sinuocaudatus4 sites
- Eomyctophum broncus4 sites
- Holocentronotus4 sites
- Pomadasyidarum krebsi4 sites
- Pterothrissus angulatus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Trachichthodes pulcher, 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
2 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 otoliths8
- Fish otoliths from the New Zealand Tertiary3
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Trachichthodes pulcher 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 Trachichthodes pulcher, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Trachichthodes pulcher was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itTrachichthodes through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schwarzhans 1980)