Centriscus
Centriscus is a genus of shrimpfishes found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
A. R. Mc Culloch · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
- CentriscidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At least 1.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 1.8 Mya.
6 occurrences of Centriscus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
6 occurrences- Miocene17%
- Pliocene69%
- Pleistocene14%
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.
Centriscus and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Centriscus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
106 taxa- Capros aper5 sites
- Maurolicus muelleri5 sites
- Trachurus5 sites
- Boops4 sites
- Bregmaceros albyi4 sites
- Gadiculus4 sites
- Micromesistius poutassou4 sites
- Syngnathus4 sites
- Alutera3 sites
- Belone3 sites
- Dactylopterus3 sites
- Engraulis3 sites
- Etrumeus3 sites
- Hygophum3 sites
- Hyporhamphus3 sites
- Lestidiops3 sites
- Merluccius3 sites
- Pomolobus3 sites
- Spratelloides gracilis3 sites
- Syngnathidae3 sites
- Argentina sphyraena2 sites
- Arnoglossus laterna2 sites
- Bothus2 sites
- Brama2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Centriscus, 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
3 references- Biogeography and climatology of Pliocene and Messinian fossil fish of eastern-central Italy3
- Données récentes sur Les téléostéens du Miocène et du Pliocéne d'Italie2
- Second record of Tursiops osennae (Cetacea: Delphinidae) in a Pliocene horizon of the Romagna Apennines, Central Italy, and the phylogeny of Tursiops1
Each of the 6 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 content2
Picture of Centriscus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- A. R. Mc Culloch
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Centriscus scutatus · SIO:Marine Vertebrates:70-274
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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Centriscus”
- 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 itCentriscidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758