Arius

Arius is a genus of catfishes of the family Ariidae. The genus Arius is distributed in brackish and fresh waters of Eastern Africa and east to Southeast Asia.

Arius

Robert Mintern · 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
AriidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Siluriformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Siluriformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Siluriformes
Environment
marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Ariidae

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 73 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 8 of 73 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 39 of 73 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 73 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 18 of 73 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 73 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 73 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–59 Mya — about 5 occurrences59–56 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 4 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 6 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 6 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 10 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 8 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–29 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.8–7.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.4–4.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.9–2.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.5–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences66 Mya129 ka74 Mya0 Mya

73 occurrences of Arius on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

73 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.

Found in

30 formations

Ameki — 5.00°N, 7.50°EAmeki — 5.56°N, 7.52°EBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WUrumaco — 11.25°N, 70.27°WScotland — 13.23°N, 59.55°WHarudi — 23.51°N, 68.69°EHarudi — 23.65°N, 68.68°EHarudi — 23.65°N, 68.66°EPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 0.63°S, 47.54°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WTashlik — 49.06°N, 31.90°ELellinge Greensand — 55.63°N, 12.62°ELellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°EStone City — 30.67°N, 96.56°WLaredo — 27.53°N, 99.43°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WElmore — 50.80°N, 1.21°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WFort Thompson — 27.80°N, 82.80°WLameta — 20.35°N, 79.05°EPanandhro — 23.68°N, 68.74°EIlaro — 6.70°N, 3.23°ENanjemoy — 38.28°N, 77.37°WYazoo — 31.93°N, 91.94°WMoodys Branch — 32.90°N, 90.19°WCantaure — 11.97°N, 70.02°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.51°WCurré — 8.86°N, 83.08°W

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The named rock units Arius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Arius and its relatives

Eocene

Where Arius and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,885 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 52 sites for Arius, 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

35 references

Each of the 73 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. 23 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Arius

Credit
Robert Mintern
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Arius maculatus · AUM:AUM:44875

Smithsonian Open Access was 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.

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What may have been alongside itAriidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cuvier and Valenciennes 1840)