Gila

Gila is a genus of fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, native to the United States and Mexico. Species of Gila are collectively referred to as western chubs. The species in the genus Siphateles are close relatives. Several members of the genus are endangered or extinct due to loss of habitat caused by diversion or overuse of water resources, particularly in the western United States.

Gila

Uncredited · 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
CyprinidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Cypriniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Cypriniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cypriniformes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Cypriniformes

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 12.5 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 16.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 1 of 20 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 10 of 20 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 9 of 20 occurrencesPleistocene17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.6–5.0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences5.0–4.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.5–3.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.9–3.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.4–2.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–2.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.2–1.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.7–1.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.1–560 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence560 ka–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences12.5 Mya129 ka16.8 Mya0 Mya

20 occurrences of Gila on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

20 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

6 formations

Alturas — 41.49°N, 120.65°WAlturas — 40.16°N, 120.27°WEsmeralda — 37.50°N, 117.56°WEsmeralda — 37.97°N, 117.80°W"unnamed sandstone" — 33.90°N, 117.00°WManix — 34.80°N, 117.00°WLa Habra — 33.60°N, 117.80°WLatah — 46.99°N, 116.28°W

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The named rock units Gila has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gila and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Gila and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

190 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Gila, 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

10 references

Each of the 20 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 Gila

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Gila minacae · KU:KUI:3249

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 itCyprinidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Baird and Girard 1853