Jefitchia

Jefitchia is an extinct genus of drum. Species lived from 48.6–33.9 mya. Jefitchia have been uncovered in Texas, Louisiana, and Portugal.

No picture of Jefitchia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Jefitchia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SciaenidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 3.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 18 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 17 of 18 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 18 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 5 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences28–25 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–7.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.5–1.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41.03 Mya – 37.71 Mya67 Mya1 Mya

18 occurrences of Jefitchia on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

18 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

10 formations

Stone City — 30.53°N, 96.69°WStone City — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCook Mountain — 30.64°N, 96.51°WCook Mountain — 30.61°N, 96.57°WCook Mountain — 31.33°N, 95.52°WYazoo — 31.66°N, 92.90°WYazoo — 31.93°N, 91.94°WWeches — 30.00°N, 97.15°WWeches — 28.96°N, 98.48°WLaredo — 27.53°N, 99.43°WCrockett — 30.63°N, 96.54°WLisbon — 31.56°N, 87.52°WMoodys Branch — 32.90°N, 90.19°WKosciusko — 32.02°N, 88.71°W“upper” Lisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°W

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The named rock units Jefitchia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Jefitchia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Jefitchia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

354 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Jefitchia, 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

9 references

Each of the 18 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 content0

No picture of Jefitchia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Jefitchia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Jefitchia 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 itSciaenidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Frizzell and Dante 1965