Cubiceps
Cubiceps is a genus of driftfishes found circumglobally.
Dr Tony Ayling · CC BY-SA 1.0 · 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.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NomeidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.9 Mya to 340 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 18.7 Mya to 0 Mya.
7 occurrences of Cubiceps 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
7 occurrences- Miocene57%
- Pliocene22%
- Pleistocene20%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Cubiceps 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.
Cubiceps and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cubiceps and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
172 taxa- Acropoma serrata4 sites
- Waitakia robusta4 sites
- Auchenoceros bicaudatus3 sites
- Austrophycis pseudomegalops3 sites
- Blachea semeniformis3 sites
- Carapus praecursor3 sites
- Caulopsetta arnoglossoides3 sites
- Coelorinchus divulgatus3 sites
- Echiodon teres3 sites
- Euclichthys novaezeelandiae3 sites
- Gnathophis ornatus3 sites
- Hemerocoetes minutus3 sites
- Lactarius sigmoidalis3 sites
- Leptoscopus progressus3 sites
- Macruronus pukeuriensis3 sites
- Parapercis finlayi3 sites
- Sparidae indet.3 sites
- Waitahana sagittiformis3 sites
- Alutera2 sites
- Argentina sphyraena2 sites
- Arnoglossus laterna2 sites
- Belone2 sites
- Boops2 sites
- Bothus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Cubiceps, 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
3 references- Reconstruction of the fossil marine bony fish fauna (Teleostei) from the Eocene to Pleistocene of New Zealand by means of otoliths. With studies of Recent congroid, morid and trachinoid otoliths5
- Données récentes sur Les téléostéens du Miocène et du Pliocéne d'Italie1
- Biogeography and climatology of Pliocene and Messinian fossil fish of eastern-central Italy1
Each of the 7 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 content2
Picture of Cubiceps
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Dr Tony Ayling
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 1.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Cubiceps pauciradiatus · UF:Fish:168936
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Cubiceps”
- 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 itNomeidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lowe 1843