Hoplias

Hoplias

Uncredited · 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
ErythrinidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Characiformes

Time the record covers

At least 58 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.5–1.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences61.66 Mya3.6 Mya67 Mya1 Mya

3 occurrences of Hoplias on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

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

3 formations

Santa Lucía — 18.03°S, 65.58°WSan Gregorio — 11.30°N, 70.24°WPebas — 3.74°S, 73.25°W

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The named rock units Hoplias has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Hoplias and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Hoplias and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

107 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Hoplias, 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. 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 Hoplias

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

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Hoplias sp. · Vouchered object contributed by MorphoVert Lab

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 itErythrinidae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gill 1903