Benthosema glaciale
Benthosema glaciale, or glacier lantern fish, is the most common species of lanternfish and important part of the midwater ecosystem of northern North Atlantic.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- glacier lantern fishPBDB
- Sits inside
- BenthosemaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Myctophiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Myctophiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Myctophiformes
Time the record covers
At least 6.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 129 ka.
16 occurrences of Benthosema glaciale 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
16 occurrences- Miocene19%
- Pliocene6%
- Pleistocene75%
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 Benthosema glaciale has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Benthosema glaciale and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Benthosema glaciale and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
242 taxa- Notoscopelus elongatus14 sites
- Gadiculus argenteus12 sites
- Hygophum benoiti12 sites
- Ceratoscopelus maderensis11 sites
- Lobianchia dofleini11 sites
- Maurolicus muelleri11 sites
- Lampanyctus crocodilus10 sites
- Myctophum punctatum10 sites
- Scopelopsis pliocenicus10 sites
- Diaphus holti9 sites
- Diaphus taaningi9 sites
- Deltentosteus7 sites
- Hygophum7 sites
- Lesueurigobius7 sites
- Micromesistius poutassou7 sites
- Diaphus rafinesquii6 sites
- Coelorinchus stellaris5 sites
- Dentex5 sites
- Diaphus5 sites
- Electrona rissoi5 sites
- Gaidropsarus5 sites
- Hygophum hygomi5 sites
- Phycis5 sites
- Arnoglossus kokeni4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Benthosema glaciale, 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
7 references- Pleistocene fish otoliths from the Mediterranean Basin: a synthesis5
- Pleistocene marine fish invasions and paleoenvironmental reconstructions in the eastern Mediterranean3
- The fossil otolith record of fishes (Vertebrata: Teleostei) in Greece2
- Tortonian teleost otoliths from northern Italy: taxonomic synthesis and stratigraphic significance2
- Paleobathymetric interpretation of the fish otoliths from the lower - middle quaternary deposits of Kephallonia and Zakynthos islands (Ionian Sea, Western Greece)2
- Données récentes sur Les téléostéens du Miocène et du Pliocéne d'Italie1
- Revision des otolithes de teleosteens du Tortonien stratotypique et de Montegibbio (Miocene Superieur d'Italie Septentrionale)1
Each of the 16 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 Benthosema glaciale
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Benthosema glaciale 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.
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What may have been alongside itBenthosema through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Reinhardt 1837)