Achirus chungkuz
No picture of Achirus chungkuz 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 Achirus chungkuz, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AchirusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Pleuronectiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Pleuronectiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Pleuronectiformes
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Achirus chungkuz 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
6 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Achirus chungkuz has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Achirus chungkuz and its relatives
MioceneWhere Achirus chungkuz and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
75 taxa- Steindachneria svennielseni5 sites
- Agonopsis cume4 sites
- Coelorinchus fidelis4 sites
- Kuhlia orientalis4 sites
- Lepophidium chonorum4 sites
- Notoscopelus scopelopsoides4 sites
- Achirus australis3 sites
- Diaphus3 sites
- Diaphus splendidus3 sites
- Diogenichthys aguilerai3 sites
- Lepophidium mapucheorum3 sites
- Navidadichthys mirus3 sites
- Nezumia epuge3 sites
- Rhynchoconger chiloensis3 sites
- Steindachneria goederti3 sites
- Argentina2 sites
- Astele chilensis2 sites
- Citharichthys parvisulcus2 sites
- Citharichthys vergens2 sites
- Cottunculus primaevus2 sites
- Gnathophis quinzioi2 sites
- Lampanyctus popoto2 sites
- Lampanyctus profestus2 sites
- Megascyliorhinus trelewensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Achirus chungkuz, 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
1 referenceEach of the 6 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Achirus chungkuz 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 Achirus chungkuz, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Achirus chungkuz 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.
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What may have been alongside itAchirus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schwarzhans and Nielsen 2021