Karrerichthys

No picture of Karrerichthys 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 Karrerichthys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MelanonidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Gadiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Gadiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gadiformes

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 7.2 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesOligocene — about 3 of 17 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 14 of 17 occurrencesMiocene34–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences9.4–8.5 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences8.5–7.6 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences7.6–6.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23.04 Mya11.04 Mya34.4 Mya6.7 Mya

17 occurrences of Karrerichthys on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

17 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

8 formations

Bells Creek Mudstone — 41.34°S, 175.46°EIhungia — 38.05°S, 178.14°EWaioha Shellbeds — 34.50°S, 172.96°EPakaurangi — 36.24°S, 174.28°EIhungia Beds — 38.21°S, 177.89°EBells Creek Limestone — 41.33°S, 175.48°ERifle Butts Siltstone — 45.14°S, 170.93°ENavidad — 33.90°S, 71.84°W

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The named rock units Karrerichthys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Karrerichthys and its relatives

Miocene

Where Karrerichthys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

194 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Karrerichthys, 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

5 references

Each of the 17 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 Karrerichthys 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 Karrerichthys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Karrerichthys 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMelanonidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schwarzhans 1980