Ambassis
Ambassis is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Ambassidae, the Asiatic glassfishes. They are found widely in the Indo-Pacific region, with species in fresh, brackish and coastal marine waters.
Frank M. Greco · CC BY 3.0 · 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
- AmbassidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At least 25 million years on record.
The record covers at least 39.1 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 42.6 Mya to 12.8 Mya.
3 occurrences of Ambassis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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 occurrencesThese 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.
Ambassis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Ambassis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Conger davidsmithi2 sites
- Gnathophis flemingi2 sites
- Holocentridarum palasulcatus2 sites
- Holocentridarum ventriosus2 sites
- Krebsiella aperta2 sites
- Macrurulus depressus2 sites
- Neoscombrops vetustus2 sites
- Nolfophidion refertus2 sites
- Platycephalus iaiunus2 sites
- Platycephalus parapercoides2 sites
- Serranidarum dentatus2 sites
- Sillago maxwelli2 sites
- Tonganago fastigatus2 sites
- Tonganago wharenga2 sites
- Toroatherina toroa2 sites
- Uranoscopus ignavus2 sites
- Acropoma aurora1 site
- Ampheristus pentlandensis1 site
- Antigonia artata1 site
- Apogon1 site
- Arius1 site
- Aulopus pristinus1 site
- Bregmaceros antiquus1 site
- Dapalis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ambassis, 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- Reconstruction of the fossil marine bony fish fauna (Teleostei) from the Eocene to Pleistocene of New Zealand by means of otoliths. With studies of Recent congroid, morid and trachinoid otoliths2
- Lower Badenian fish otoliths of the Styrian and Lavanttal basins, with a revision of Weinfurter's type material1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Ambassis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Frank M. Greco
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ambassis was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Ambassis”
- 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 itAmbassidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cuvier 1828