Gobiopterus

Gobiopterus is a genus of gobies native to fresh, marine and brackish waters of the coastal areas around the Indian and Pacific oceans.

Gobiopterus

Albert William Herre · 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
GobiidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 1.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1.63 Mya to 340 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Pliocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 2 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 2 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.1–2.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.0–1.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences387 ka–290 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290 ka–193 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences193 ka–97 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences97 ka–0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.63 Mya340 ka2.9 Mya0 Mya

2 occurrences of Gobiopterus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

2 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.

Gobiopterus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Gobiopterus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

24 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Gobiopterus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 reference

Each 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Gobiopterus

Credit
Albert William Herre
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Gobiopterus was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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 itGobiidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bleeker 1874