Clupeonella

Yuriy Kvach · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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- Also called
- spratPBDB
- Sits inside
- ClupeinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Clupeiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Clupeiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Clupeiformes
Time the record covers
At least 8.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
5 occurrences of Clupeonella 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
5 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
- Brackwater Molasse Formation · Molasse Group1
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The named rock units Clupeonella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Clupeonella and its relatives
MioceneWhere Clupeonella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
138 taxa- Mugil3 sites
- Alosa2 sites
- Aphanius crassicaudus2 sites
- Atherina2 sites
- Atractoscion2 sites
- Gobius2 sites
- Gobius multipinnatus2 sites
- Aceratherium1 site
- Amphicyon1 site
- Amphicyon giganteus1 site
- Amphicyonidae1 site
- Amphilagus1 site
- Amphimoschus ponteleviensis1 site
- Amphiperatherium frequens1 site
- Anchitherium aurelianense1 site
- Andrias scheuchzeri1 site
- Atherinidarum1 site
- Aves1 site
- Batrachoididae1 site
- Blennius1 site
- Brachypotherium1 site
- Brachypotherium brachypus1 site
- Bransatoglis1 site
- Bunolistriodon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Clupeonella, 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
4 references- Stratigraphy of the Maikop Group and Pteropoda Beds in Northern Azerbaijan2
- Fossil marine fishes and the ʻLago Mareʼ event: Has the Mediterranean ever transformed into a brackish lake?1
- Stratigraphy and mammal faunas of the Brackwassermolasse in the surroundings of Ulm (Southwest Germany)1
- Données récentes sur Les téléostéens du Miocène et du Pliocéne d'Italie1
Each of the 5 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 Clupeonella
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Yuriy Kvach
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Clupeonella 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.
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What may have been alongside itClupeinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kessler 1877