Alutera
No picture of Alutera was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Alutera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TetraodontiformesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Tetraodontiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Tetraodontiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Tetraodontiformes
Time the record covers
At most 3.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 1.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Alutera 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
3 occurrences- Pliocene86%
- Pleistocene14%
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.
Alutera and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Alutera and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
80 taxa- Boops3 sites
- Bregmaceros albyi3 sites
- Capros aper3 sites
- Centriscus3 sites
- Dactylopterus3 sites
- Engraulis3 sites
- Gadiculus3 sites
- Hygophum3 sites
- Hyporhamphus3 sites
- Maurolicus muelleri3 sites
- Micromesistius poutassou3 sites
- Pomolobus3 sites
- Spratelloides gracilis3 sites
- Syngnathidae3 sites
- Syngnathus3 sites
- Trachurus3 sites
- Argentina sphyraena2 sites
- Arnoglossus laterna2 sites
- Belone2 sites
- Bothus2 sites
- Brama2 sites
- Ceratoscopelus maderensis2 sites
- Conger2 sites
- Cubiceps2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Alutera, 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
2 references- Biogeography and climatology of Pliocene and Messinian fossil fish of eastern-central Italy2
- Données récentes sur Les téléostéens du Miocène et du Pliocéne d'Italie1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Alutera was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Alutera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Alutera 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTetraodontiformes through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Oken 1817