Trichiurus

Trichiurus is a genus of cutlassfishes belonging to the family Trichiuridae.

Trichiurus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TrichiuridaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 1 of 39 occurrencesEocene — about 29 of 39 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 39 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 39 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 39 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 39 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–46 Mya — about 4 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 4 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 4 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 4 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–8.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences8.1–6.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.0–4.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.0–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence56 Mya129 ka60 Mya0 Mya

39 occurrences of Trichiurus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

39 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

21 formations

Tallahatta — 31.20°N, 85.48°WTallahatta — 31.79°N, 88.32°WTallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°WYazoo — 31.66°N, 92.90°WYazoo — 31.82°N, 92.33°WYazoo — 31.93°N, 91.94°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WStudienka — 48.20°N, 17.98°EStone City — 30.67°N, 96.56°WScotland — 13.23°N, 59.55°WAalter — 50.79°N, 2.78°EAalter — 51.09°N, 3.45°EGatun — 9.35°N, 79.80°WElmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WClinchfield — 32.91°N, 83.36°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WIlaro — 6.70°N, 3.23°EGosport — 31.50°N, 87.90°WRosarito Beach — 32.12°N, 116.80°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.60°WUscari — 9.57°N, 82.57°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WHarudi — 23.49°N, 68.75°ELisbon — 31.36°N, 86.52°WImo — 5.55°N, 7.64°ELagos-Portimão — 37.12°N, 8.54°W

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The named rock units Trichiurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Trichiurus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Trichiurus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,189 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Trichiurus, 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

27 references

Each of the 39 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. 15 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 content3

Picture of Trichiurus

Credit
nobody named on the record
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
Trichiurus lepturus · MCZ:Ich:155905

3D model

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

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.

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What may have been alongside itTrichiuridae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758