Gobioidei
Searched as Gobioidei indet.. The Paleobiology Database treats Gobioidei as the accepted name.

Neale Monks at English Wikipedia · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
- GobiiformesPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Gobioidei 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
2 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 Gobioidei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Gobioidei and its relatives
MioceneWhere Gobioidei and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
440 taxa- Acanthuroides massalongoi2 sites
- Alopiopsis plejodon2 sites
- Apogon2 sites
- Apogonidae2 sites
- Bajaichthys elegans2 sites
- Bolcabalistes varii2 sites
- Caranx2 sites
- Eolactoria sorbinii2 sites
- Eoplectus bloti2 sites
- Eorandallius elegans2 sites
- Eorandallius rectifrons2 sites
- Eotetraodon pygmaeus2 sites
- Gazolaichthys vestenanovae2 sites
- Gobiidae2 sites
- Heptadiodon echinus2 sites
- Latellopsis latellai2 sites
- Lehmanichthys lessiniensis2 sites
- Lepidocottus aries2 sites
- Lessinia horrenda2 sites
- Mene oblonga2 sites
- Metacanthurus veronensis2 sites
- Metaspisurus emmanueli2 sites
- Pesciarichthys punctatus2 sites
- Platyrhina bolcensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Gobioidei, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Gobioidei
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Neale Monks at English Wikipedia
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Gobioidei 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.
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What may have been alongside itGobiiformes through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Agassiz 1835)