Gobiiformes

Gobiiformes

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GobiariaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 424 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 424 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 424 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 424 occurrencesEocene — about 11 of 424 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 15 of 424 occurrencesMiocene — about 218 of 424 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 58 of 424 occurrencesPleistocene — about 121 of 424 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–49 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 9 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 20 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 34 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 69 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 108 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 169 occurrences48.07 Mya129 ka146 Mya0 Mya

424 occurrences of Gobiiformes on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

424 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

47 formations

Lindos Bay — 36.09°N, 28.01°ELindos Bay — 36.26°N, 28.17°ELindos Bay — 36.36°N, 28.21°EHrušky — 48.81°N, 16.63°EQuilon — 8.81°N, 76.65°ERaz-el-Ain — 35.71°N, 0.64°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.80°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.84°WSant’Agata Fossili — 45.07°N, 7.94°EGutingkeng — 23.04°N, 120.43°EGutingkeng — 22.84°N, 120.41°EPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.90°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.75°N, 118.29°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.75°N, 118.29°WNarita — 35.35°N, 140.10°ENarita — 35.78°N, 140.32°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.66°N, 10.23°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.63°N, 11.80°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.16°N, 10.11°Efacies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°EBrackwater Molasse — 48.48°N, 10.10°EOosterhout — 51.70°N, 5.73°EMonterey — 34.08°N, 118.17°WEger — 47.92°N, 20.37°EKishima — 33.38°N, 129.93°ECambay Shale — 21.33°N, 72.98°EMandrové — 1.09°S, 8.94°EMarnes de Saint-Etienne-d’Orthe — 43.57°N, 1.10°WMiri — 4.87°N, 114.86°EMiri — 4.87°N, 114.79°EMiyata — 35.19°N, 39.65°EYokosuka — 35.26°N, 139.72°ESeria — 4.81°N, 114.67°ETimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°W

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The named rock units Gobiiformes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 296 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gobiiformes and its relatives

Miocene

Where Gobiiformes and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,057 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 182 sites for Gobiiformes, 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

109 references

Each of the 424 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. 97 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 Gobiiformes

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.