Heteroconger

Heteroconger is a genus of marine congrid eels. These small, slender garden eels live in groups where each individual has its own burrow. Usually, only the head and front half of the body is visible. The greatest species richness is in the Indo-Pacific, but species are also found in the warmer parts of the Atlantic and the eastern Pacific. The genus name relates to the species' distinct appearance, particularly in dentition, from other closely related eels.

Heteroconger

Cody Logan · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
Also called
garden eelPBDB
Sits inside
CongridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Anguilliformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Anguilliformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Anguilliformes

Time the record covers

At least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 25.2 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesOligocene62–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56 Mya27.3 Mya62.4 Mya24.5 Mya

3 occurrences of Heteroconger on record. 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

3 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

2 formations

Tashlik — 49.06°N, 31.90°EPiney Point — 37.61°N, 76.76°W

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The named rock units Heteroconger 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.

Found in the same rock

73 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Heteroconger, 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

3 references

Each of the 3 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 content2

Picture of Heteroconger

Credit
Cody Logan
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Heteroconger longissimus · tcwc:ichthyology:615.06

Smithsonian Open Access was 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itCongridae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bleeker 1868