Aldrichetta forsteri
Yellow-eye mullet, are small, near-shore fish found in temperate waters of southern Australia from just north of Sydney, New South Wales to Shark Bay in Western Australia, around Tasmania, and New Zealand. Others names are Coorong mullet, conmuri, estuary mullet, Forster's mullet, freshwater mullet, pilch, pilchard, Victor Harbor mullet, yelloweye and yellow-eyed mullet.

StellaMcQ · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
- AldrichettaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 3 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 2.4 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Aldrichetta forsteri on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
1 occurrences- Pliocene94%
- Pleistocene6%
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.
Aldrichetta forsteri and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Aldrichetta forsteri and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Arnoglossus grenfelli1 site
- Auchenoceros1 site
- Galeichthys ohei1 site
- Hemerocoetes macrophthalmus1 site
- Hemerocoetes monopterygius1 site
- Lampanyctodes hectoris1 site
- Macruronus novaezeelandiae1 site
- Merluccius1 site
- Pelotretis1 site
- Peltorhamphus flexuodorsalis1 site
- Peltorhamphus tenuis1 site
- Pseudophycis barbata1 site
- Pseudophycis breviuscula1 site
- Samaris validus1 site
- Sardinops sagax1 site
- Sphyraena1 site
- Sprattus1 site
- Symbolophorus boops1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Aldrichetta forsteri, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 1 occurrence 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
Media content1
Picture of Aldrichetta forsteri
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- StellaMcQ
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Aldrichetta forsteri 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAldrichetta through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Valenciennes 1836)