Gobius niger

The black goby is a species of ray-finned fish found in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea. It inhabits estuaries, lagoons, and inshore water over seagrass and algae. It feeds on a variety of invertebrates and sometimes small fish. This species can also be found in the aquarium trade.

Gobius niger

Etrusko25 · 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
GobiusPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 4.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 129 ka.

Miocene — about 3 of 8 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 8 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 4 of 8 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 8 occurrences7.5–7.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.7–6.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.2–5.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.1–1.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.8–1.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.5–1.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.3–1.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.0–775 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences775 ka–516 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences516 ka–258 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences258 ka–0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.333 Mya774 ka7.7 Mya0 Mya

8 occurrences of Gobius niger on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

8 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

1 formation

Lindos Bay — 36.09°N, 28.01°ELindos Bay — 36.36°N, 28.21°E

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The named rock units Gobius niger has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gobius niger and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Gobius niger and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

123 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Gobius niger, 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

6 references

Each of the 8 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 content1

Picture of Gobius niger

Credit
Etrusko25
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Gobius niger 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 itGobius through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758