Lichia

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
- CarangidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At least 40 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
5 occurrences of Lichia on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
5 occurrencesThese 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.
Lichia and its relatives
MioceneWhere Lichia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
326 taxa- Gobius2 sites
- Mene oblonga2 sites
- Sphyraena bolcensis2 sites
- "Gentonia" sp.1 site
- "Maffeia" sp.1 site
- Abdobalistum thyrsus1 site
- Abromasta microdon1 site
- Acanthonemus subaureus1 site
- Acanthopygaeus agassizi1 site
- Acanthuroides massalongoi1 site
- Acropoma lepidotum1 site
- Aeoliscoides longirostris1 site
- Alausa latissima1 site
- Albula1 site
- Alopiopsis plejodon1 site
- Amphistium1 site
- Amphistium paradoxum1 site
- Anguilloides branchiostegalis1 site
- Anotophysa1 site
- Anthias1 site
- Aphanius crassicaudus1 site
- Apogon1 site
- Apogonidae1 site
- Apogoniscus pauciradiatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Lichia, 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
4 references- Ricerche sui Pesci Fossili di Chiavòn (Strati di Sotzka -- Miocene Inferiore)2
- The systematic composition of the Eocene actinopterygian fish fauna from Monte Bolca, northern Italy, as known to date1
- A leerfish (Teleostei, Carangidae) from the Messinian evaporite succession of the Vena del Gesso basin (Romagna Apennines, Italy): Palaeogeographical and palaeoecological implications1
- Mémoire sur les poissons fossiles des lignites de Sieblos1
Each of the 5 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Lichia
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Lichia 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCarangidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cuvier 1817