Anguilla rectangularis
No picture of Anguilla rectangularis 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 Anguilla rectangularis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnguillaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Anguilliformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Anguilliformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Anguilliformes
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 41.03 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Anguilla rectangularis 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.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Anguilla rectangularis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Anguilla rectangularis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Anguilla rectangularis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Aequalobythites aequalis1 site
- Antigonia angusta1 site
- Apogon arambourgi1 site
- Centropristis1 site
- Gymnothorax1 site
- Haemulidarum kokeni1 site
- Hoplobrotula lerichei1 site
- Isistius trituratus1 site
- Montlivaultia dispar1 site
- Moringua1 site
- Oblada joneti1 site
- Oglibia subregularis1 site
- Paraconger sauvagei1 site
- Percoideorum electilis1 site
- Platycephalus aculeatus1 site
- Pristigenys rutoti1 site
- Saurida rectua1 site
- Serranus (Serranellus)1 site
- Sparidarum pectinoides1 site
- Trachichthodes circularis1 site
- Turbinolia nystiana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Anguilla rectangularis, 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
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No picture of Anguilla rectangularis 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 Anguilla rectangularis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Anguilla rectangularis 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 itAnguilla through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stinton and Nolf 1970