Amphistium paradoxum
No picture of Amphistium paradoxum was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Amphistium paradoxum itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Amphistium paradoxum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmphistiumPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Pleuronectiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Pleuronectiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Pleuronectiformes
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Amphistium paradoxum on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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- Eocene100%
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.
Amphistium paradoxum and its relatives
EoceneWhere Amphistium paradoxum and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
258 taxa- "Gentonia" sp.1 site
- "Maffeia" sp.1 site
- Abdobalistum thyrsus1 site
- Abromasta microdon1 site
- Acanthonemus subaureus1 site
- Acanthopygaeus agassizi1 site
- Acanthuroides massalongoi1 site
- Acropoma lepidotum1 site
- Aeoliscoides longirostris1 site
- Alopiopsis plejodon1 site
- Anguilloides branchiostegalis1 site
- Anotophysa1 site
- Apogonidae1 site
- Apogoniscus pauciradiatus1 site
- Archaephippus asper1 site
- Aspesiganus margaritae1 site
- Aspesiperca ruffoi1 site
- Atherina macrocephala1 site
- Aulorhamphus bolcensis1 site
- Aulorhamphus capellinii1 site
- Aulorhamphus chiarasorbiniae1 site
- Aulostomoides tyleri1 site
- Auxides propterygius1 site
- Bajaichthys elegans1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Amphistium paradoxum, 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 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 content0
No picture of Amphistium paradoxum was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Amphistium paradoxum itself, so it was not used.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Amphistium paradoxum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Amphistium paradoxum 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAmphistium through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1834