Chrysichthys

Chrysichthys is a genus of claroteid catfishes native to Africa. Two fossil species are known. Chrysichthys macrotis, Van Neer, 1994, is known from the Miocene-Pliocene of the Albertine Rift in Uganda and Chrysichthys mahengeensis, Murray & Budney, 2003, is known from the Eocene of the Mahenge Formation, Tanzania.

Chrysichthys

Boulenger, George Albert, 1858-1937 · 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
ClaroteidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Siluriformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Siluriformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Siluriformes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Siluriformes

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 3 of 46 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 46 occurrencesMiocene — about 28 of 46 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 15 of 46 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 46 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 9 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41.03 Mya3.6 Mya49 Mya0 Mya

46 occurrences of Chrysichthys on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

46 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

7 formations

Nkondo — 1.50°N, 31.00°EWarwire — 1.50°N, 31.00°ENyaburogo — 1.00°N, 30.50°EAmeki — 5.00°N, 7.50°EAmeki — 5.56°N, 7.52°EKaiso Village — 1.50°N, 31.00°ENyakabingo — 1.00°N, 30.50°EMaradah — 28.58°N, 19.90°E

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The named rock units Chrysichthys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chrysichthys and its relatives

Miocene

Where Chrysichthys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

208 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Chrysichthys, 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

19 references

Each of the 46 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. 7 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 Chrysichthys

Credit
Boulenger, George Albert, 1858-1937
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
Chrysichthys duttoni · AUM:AUM:51632

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. Bleeker 1858