Centrolophidae

Medusafishes are a family, Centrolophidae, of scombriform ray-finned fishes. The family includes about 31 species. They are found in temperate and tropical waters throughout the world.

Centrolophidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ScombriformesPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 58 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 129 ka.

Paleocene — about 2 of 14 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 4 of 14 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 14 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 5 of 14 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 14 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–55 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence59.24 Mya774 ka63 Mya0 Mya

14 occurrences of Centrolophidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

14 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

6 formations

Alzey — 49.83°N, 7.72°ELellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°ESouthburn Sand — 44.30°S, 171.00°ENavidad — 33.89°S, 71.83°WSan Pedro — 33.75°N, 118.29°WChiusole — 46.08°N, 11.12°E

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The named rock units Centrolophidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Centrolophidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Centrolophidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

912 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Centrolophidae, 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

13 references

Each of the 14 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. 1 further reference is 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 content1

Picture of Centrolophidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Centrolophidae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.