Vinciguerria

Vinciguerria is a genus of lightfishes, family Phosichthyidae. It is named for Dr. Decio Vinciguerra (1856–1934), an Italian ichthyologist.

Vinciguerria

Dr Tony Ayling · CC BY-SA 1.0 · via Wikidata/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
PhosichthyidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Stomiiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Stomiiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Stomiiformes

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 129 ka.

Eocene — about 3 of 48 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 14 of 48 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 17 of 48 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 48 occurrencesPleistocene — about 8 of 48 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 3 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.8–8.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.2–6.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.5–4.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.9–3.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences41.03 Mya774 ka49 Mya0 Mya

48 occurrences of Vinciguerria on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

48 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

12 formations

Menilite — 49.49°N, 17.79°EMenilite — 49.20°N, 17.20°EPshekha Horizon — 44.54°N, 41.94°EPshekha Horizon — 44.74°N, 39.81°EMenelitic — 49.55°N, 17.67°EBlinovo — 45.27°N, 36.38°EDabakhana Svita — 41.72°N, 44.83°EKhadum Horizon — 43.00°N, 41.02°ELindos Bay — 36.36°N, 28.21°EMandorové — 0.73°S, 8.89°EZdanice-Hustopece — 49.13°N, 16.86°EKuri — 35.41°N, 132.94°ENavidad — 33.90°S, 71.84°WLacui — 41.75°S, 73.84°W

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The named rock units Vinciguerria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 33 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vinciguerria and its relatives

Miocene

Where Vinciguerria and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

608 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Vinciguerria, 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

26 references

Each of the 48 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. 14 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 content1

Picture of Vinciguerria

Credit
Dr Tony Ayling
Licence
CC BY-SA 1.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Vinciguerria was found in Sketchfab.

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.

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

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