Vinciguerria poweriae

Vinciguerria poweriae is a species of lightfish belonging to the genus Vinciguerria. They are mostly found in seawater 300–600 metres (1,000–2,000 ft) deep during the day and 50–350 metres (160–1,150 ft) deep at night. They feed on small crustaceans.

Vinciguerria poweriae

Etrusko25 · CC0 · via Wikipedia/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
VinciguerriaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Stomiiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Stomiiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Stomiiformes

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 129 ka.

Miocene — about 2 of 10 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 10 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 5 of 10 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.6–6.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.0–5.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.4–3.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.3–2.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.7–2.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.2–1.6 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.6–1.1 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence549 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence13.82 Mya774 ka16.5 Mya0 Mya

10 occurrences of Vinciguerria poweriae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

10 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

1 formation

Lindos Bay — 36.36°N, 28.21°E

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The named rock units Vinciguerria poweriae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vinciguerria poweriae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Vinciguerria poweriae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

188 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Vinciguerria poweriae, 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

8 references

Each of the 10 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

Picture of Vinciguerria poweriae

Credit
Etrusko25
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Vinciguerria poweriae 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.

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 itVinciguerria through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cocco 1838)