Epigonus

Epigonus is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Epigonidae found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean. The genus was erected by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque in 1810.

Epigonus

SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC · 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
EpigonidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 45.7 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 52 Mya to 129 ka.

Eocene — about 11 of 35 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 35 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 17 of 35 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 35 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 35 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–34 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–8.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.8–7.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.1–5.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.3–3.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.5–1.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.8–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence45.7 Mya774 ka53 Mya0 Mya

35 occurrences of Epigonus 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

35 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

9 formations

Miretrain Marl — 43.56°N, 1.11°WSant’Agata Fossili — 45.07°N, 7.94°EDonzacq Marl — 43.75°N, 0.84°WWaihao Greensand — 44.80°S, 170.98°EWaioha Shellbeds — 34.50°S, 172.96°EPakaurangi — 36.24°S, 174.28°EHukatere Sandstone — 36.23°S, 174.29°EWhenuataru Tuff — 44.23°S, 176.23°EMarnes de Saint-Etienne-d’Orthe — 43.57°N, 1.10°W

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The named rock units Epigonus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Epigonus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Epigonus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

688 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Epigonus, 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

12 references

Each of the 35 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 Epigonus

Credit
SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Epigonus pandionis · KU:KUI:42758

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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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What may have been alongside itEpigonidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rafinesque 1810