Valenciennellus

Valenciennellus is a genus of marine hatchetfishes. They are commonly known as constellationfishes.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SternoptychidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Sternoptychidae
Life habit
nektonic, depth=deepPBDB, for Sternoptychidae
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Sternoptychidae
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Sternoptychidae
Environment
oceanic,marinePBDB, for Sternoptychidae

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 6 of 22 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 22 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 9 of 22 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 22 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 22 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences41.03 Mya129 ka49 Mya0 Mya

22 occurrences of Valenciennellus 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

22 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

7 formations

Miretrain Marl — 43.57°N, 1.11°WYokosuka — 35.26°N, 139.72°EBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WPakaurangi — 36.24°S, 174.28°EMount Harris — 45.21°S, 170.88°EMarnes de Saint-Etienne-d’Orthe — 43.57°N, 1.10°WMiyata — 35.19°N, 39.65°E

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The named rock units Valenciennellus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Valenciennellus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Valenciennellus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

563 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Valenciennellus, 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 22 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 content1

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
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Specimen
Valenciennellus stellatus · MCZ:Ich:81935

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The description on this site

Licence
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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jordan and Evermann 1895