Aphanopus

Aphanopus, the black scabbardfishes, is a genus of Cutlassfish which contains the following species:Aphanopus arigato Parin, 1994 Aphanopus beckeri Parin, 1994 Aphanopus capricornis Parin, 1994 Aphanopus carbo Lowe, 1839 Aphanopus intermedius Parin, 1983 Aphanopus microphthalmus Norman, 1939 Aphanopus mikhailini Parin, 1983

Aphanopus

Gulielma Mary Herschell · Public Domain · 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
TrichiuridaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 9.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 129 ka.

Miocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 5 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.9–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.2–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.2–1.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.6–1.1 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11.63 Mya1.8 Mya16.5 Mya0 Mya

5 occurrences of Aphanopus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

5 occurrences

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.

Aphanopus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Aphanopus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

119 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Aphanopus, 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

4 references

Each of the 5 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

Media content1

Picture of Aphanopus

Credit
Gulielma Mary Herschell
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Aphanopus 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 itTrichiuridae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lowe 1839