Gnathophis flemingi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GnathophisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Anguilliformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Anguilliformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Anguilliformes
Time the record covers
At least 3.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 45.7 Mya to 42.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 52 Mya to 39.1 Mya.
4 occurrences of Gnathophis flemingi on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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- Eocene100%
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.
Gnathophis flemingi and its relatives
EoceneWhere Gnathophis flemingi and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
66 taxa- Conger davidsmithi4 sites
- Neoscombrops vetustus4 sites
- Platycephalus parapercoides4 sites
- Serranidarum dentatus4 sites
- Tonganago fastigatus4 sites
- Tonganago wharenga4 sites
- Antigonia artata3 sites
- Krebsiella aperta3 sites
- Macrurulus immanis3 sites
- Platycephalus iaiunus3 sites
- Pterothrissus angulatus3 sites
- Trachichthodes pulcher3 sites
- Acropoma aurora2 sites
- Ambassis simesi2 sites
- Aulopus pristinus2 sites
- Cephalopholis aotearoa2 sites
- Eomyctophum broncus2 sites
- Holocentridarum palasulcatus2 sites
- Holocentridarum ventriosus2 sites
- Holocentronotus2 sites
- Hoplobrotula greenwoodi2 sites
- Macrurulus depressus2 sites
- Maorigadus anarchicus2 sites
- Maxwelliella urbana2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Gnathophis flemingi, 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- Reconstruction of the fossil marine bony fish fauna (Teleostei) from the Eocene to Pleistocene of New Zealand by means of otoliths. With studies of Recent congroid, morid and trachinoid otoliths3
- Fish otoliths from the New Zealand Tertiary1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Gnathophis flemingi 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 Gnathophis flemingi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gnathophis flemingi was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGnathophis through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schwarzhans 1980