Uranoscopus ignavus
No picture of Uranoscopus ignavus 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 Uranoscopus ignavus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- UranoscopusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 3.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 42.6 Mya and 39.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Uranoscopus ignavus 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
2 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.
Uranoscopus ignavus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Uranoscopus ignavus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Ambassis simesi2 sites
- Conger davidsmithi2 sites
- Gnathophis flemingi2 sites
- Holocentridarum palasulcatus2 sites
- Holocentridarum ventriosus2 sites
- Krebsiella aperta2 sites
- Macrurulus depressus2 sites
- Neoscombrops vetustus2 sites
- Nolfophidion refertus2 sites
- Platycephalus iaiunus2 sites
- Platycephalus parapercoides2 sites
- Serranidarum dentatus2 sites
- Sillago maxwelli2 sites
- Tonganago fastigatus2 sites
- Tonganago wharenga2 sites
- Toroatherina toroa2 sites
- Acropoma aurora1 site
- Ampheristus pentlandensis1 site
- Antigonia artata1 site
- Aulopus pristinus1 site
- Bregmaceros antiquus1 site
- Dapalis1 site
- Egregioberyx erectus1 site
- Eregioberyx1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Uranoscopus ignavus, 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 otoliths1
- Fish otoliths from the New Zealand Tertiary1
Each of the 2 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 Uranoscopus ignavus 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 Uranoscopus ignavus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Uranoscopus ignavus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itUranoscopus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schwarzhans 1980