Gadiculus argenteus

Gadiculus argenteus, or the silvery pout, is a species of cod found in the Northeast Atlantic region. It grows to a length of 15 cm (5.9 in) and is of minor importance to local commercial fisheries, being rather used as a bait fish.

Gadiculus argenteus

Joachim Langeneck · 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
silvery poutPBDB
Sits inside
GadiculusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Gadiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Gadiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gadiformes

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 129 ka.

Miocene — about 18 of 36 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 36 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 13 of 36 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.8–9.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.1–8.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.4–7.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.7–7.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.0–6.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.3–5.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.9–4.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.2–3.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.5–2.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.8–2.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.1–1.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.4–698 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences15.98 Mya774 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

36 occurrences of Gadiculus argenteus 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

36 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

5 formations

Lindos Bay — 36.09°N, 28.01°ELindos Bay — 36.26°N, 28.17°ELindos Bay — 36.36°N, 28.21°ESant’Agata Fossili — 45.07°N, 7.94°ESant’Agata Fossili — 45.07°N, 7.97°ERifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°ERifle Butts Siltstone — 45.14°S, 170.93°EGaindorf — 48.49°N, 15.72°E

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The named rock units Gadiculus argenteus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gadiculus argenteus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Gadiculus argenteus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

609 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Gadiculus argenteus, 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

15 references

Each of the 36 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. 3 further references are not listed. 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 Gadiculus argenteus

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Joachim Langeneck
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CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
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CT scan

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Specimen
Gadiculus argenteus · YPM:VZ:YPM ICH 003572

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 itGadiculus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Guichenot 1850)