Coelorhynchus
Searched as Coelorhynchus toulai touli. The Paleobiology Database treats Coelorhynchus as the accepted name.

Not Coelorhynchus. This is Tephrodornis pondicerianus pondicerianus (Gmelin, 1789), a relative.
Sarthak Awhad · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- MacrouridaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Gadiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Gadiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gadiformes
Time the record covers
At most 1.8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 3.6 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Coelorhynchus 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
1 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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.
Coelorhynchus and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Coelorhynchus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
462 taxa- Lactarius sigmoidalis7 sites
- Nezumia sagittiformis5 sites
- Acropoma serrata4 sites
- Diaphus4 sites
- Gnathophis ornatus4 sites
- Paraulopus miocaenicus4 sites
- Apogon3 sites
- Arnoglossus longus3 sites
- Carapus praecursor3 sites
- Coelorinchus divulgatus3 sites
- Dentex nobilis3 sites
- Diaphus curvatus3 sites
- Diaphus debilis3 sites
- Diaphus exilis3 sites
- Echiodon teres3 sites
- Euclichthys novaezeelandiae3 sites
- Gadiculus adversus3 sites
- Gadiculus argenteus3 sites
- Hemerocoetes minutus3 sites
- Hygophum circularis3 sites
- Merluccius merluccius3 sites
- Notoscopelus3 sites
- Optivus moko3 sites
- Pterothrissus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Coelorhynchus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 content2

Picture of Tephrodornis pondicerianus pondicerianus (Gmelin, 1789)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Sarthak Awhad
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Coelorhynchus coelorhynchus geronimo · UF:Fish:216946
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itMacrouridae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Giorna 1809