Eurypleuron

Eurypleuron is a monotypic genus of pearlfishes, family Carapidae. It contains only Eurypleuron owasianum, the eel pearlfish, which is a moderately sized fish reaching 22–24 cm (8.7–9.4 in) total length, found in the Southern Indian and Pacific Oceans.

No picture of Eurypleuron was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Eurypleuron, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CarapidaePBDB
Diet
carnivore, parasitePBDB, for Ophidiiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Ophidiiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ophidiiformes

Time the record covers

At least 3.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 25.2 Mya to 21.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 18.7 Mya.

Oligocene — about 3 of 4 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesMiocene27–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25.2 Mya21.7 Mya27.8 Mya18.2 Mya

4 occurrences of Eurypleuron on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

4 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

3 formations

Pakaurangi — 36.24°S, 174.28°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.66°S, 170.65°EChatton — 46.11°S, 168.80°E

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The named rock units Eurypleuron has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eurypleuron and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Eurypleuron and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

85 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Eurypleuron, 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

2 references

Each of the 4 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 content0

No picture of Eurypleuron was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Eurypleuron, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Eurypleuron 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.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCarapidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Markle and Olney 1990