Fistularia
The cornetfishes or flutemouths are a small family, the Fistulariidae, of extremely elongated fish in the order Syngnathiformes. The family consists of a single genus, Fistularia, with four species, found worldwide in tropical and subtropical marine environments.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FistulariidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 6.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Fistularia 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
4 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 Fistularia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Fistularia and its relatives
MioceneWhere Fistularia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
119 taxa- Lepidopus albyi3 sites
- Maurolicus muelleri3 sites
- Alosa elongata2 sites
- Arnoglossus sauvagei2 sites
- Bregmaceros albyi2 sites
- Diaphus edwardsi2 sites
- Diaphus larteti2 sites
- Diaphus microsomus2 sites
- Diaphus vexillifer2 sites
- Gonostoma albyi2 sites
- Lampanyctus ecnomi2 sites
- Lampanyctus licatae2 sites
- Lestidiops sphekodes2 sites
- Myctophum dorsale2 sites
- Paralepis albyi2 sites
- Syngnathus albyi2 sites
- Synodus avus2 sites
- Acanthocybium solandri1 site
- Acanthonotos armatus1 site
- Aetomylaeus1 site
- Africentrum1 site
- Anapterus elongatus1 site
- Archaeschrichtius ruggieroi1 site
- Arnoglossus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Fistularia, 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
4 references- Taphonomy, palaeoecology and palaeobiological significance of the Cisterna quarry fossil site: An exceptional window into the marine vertebrate biodiversity of the early Late Miocene Mediterranean Sea1
- Analyse séquentielle d'un nouveau gisement de poissons fossiles du Messinien marin diatomitique : Masseria il Salto près de Caltagirone (Province de Catane, Sicile)1
- Données récentes sur Les téléostéens du Miocène et du Pliocéne d'Italie1
- Messinian marine fish communities of the Mediterranean Sea1
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 content3
Picture of Fistularia
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- zsispeo
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Fistularia commersonii · UWFC:ADULT COLLECTION:UW 014043
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC0 Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Cornetfish”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itFistulariidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758