Bregmaceros minutus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BregmacerosPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Gadiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Gadiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gadiformes
Time the record covers
At most 4.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 18.7 Mya and 13.82 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Bregmaceros minutus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
4 occurrences- Miocene100%
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 Bregmaceros minutus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Bregmaceros minutus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Bregmaceros minutus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
76 taxa- Gnathophis ornatus4 sites
- Acropoma serrata3 sites
- Coelorinchus divulgatus3 sites
- Euclichthys novaezeelandiae3 sites
- Lactarius sigmoidalis3 sites
- Macruronus pukeuriensis3 sites
- Waitahana sagittiformis3 sites
- Auchenoceros bicaudatus2 sites
- Austrophycis pseudomegalops2 sites
- Blachea semeniformis2 sites
- Carapus praecursor2 sites
- Caulopsetta arnoglossoides2 sites
- Coelorhynchus toulai2 sites
- Coelorinchus preaustralis2 sites
- Cubiceps2 sites
- Diaphus curvatus2 sites
- Echiodon teres2 sites
- Electrona subasperoides2 sites
- Gadiculus adversus2 sites
- Hemerocoetes minutus2 sites
- Lepidorhynchus frosti2 sites
- Leptoscopus progressus2 sites
- Parapercis finlayi2 sites
- Parapercis pareoraensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Bregmaceros minutus, 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
2 references- Reconstruction of the fossil marine bony fish fauna (Teleostei) from the Eocene to Pleistocene of New Zealand by means of otoliths. With studies of Recent congroid, morid and trachinoid otoliths3
- Fish otoliths from the Tertiary strata of Victoria, Australia1
Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Bregmaceros minutus 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 Bregmaceros minutus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bregmaceros minutus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBregmaceros through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stinton 1957