Coilia cf. mystus
Coilia, the grenadier anchovies, is a genus of anchovies. It currently contains 12–13 species. They are found in East, Southeast and South Asia, and mostly inhabit estuarine regions, but there are also species in coastal marine habitats and rivers. The largest is up to 41 cm (16 in) in length, but most species only reach around half that size.

BEDO (Thailand) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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.
Time the record covers
At most 6.3 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 5.333 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Coilia cf. mystus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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- 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
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The named rock units Coilia cf. mystus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Coilia cf. mystus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Coilia cf. mystus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Advenasciaena bruneiana1 site
- Ariidae1 site
- Boesemania obesa1 site
- Bruneisciaena schwarzhansi1 site
- Coilia planata1 site
- Dendrophysa angulata1 site
- Dendrophysa sp.1 site
- Gobiidae1 site
- Nibea1 site
- Nibea ambugensis1 site
- Pomadasys1 site
- Protonibea nolfi1 site
- Setipinna cf. retusa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Coilia cf. mystus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Coilia cf. mystus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- BEDO (Thailand)
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Coilia”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.