Liparidae

The snailfishes or sea snails, are a family of marine ray-finned fishes. These fishes make up the Liparidae, a family classified within the order Scorpaeniformes.

Liparidae

Kitty Mecklenburg · Public Domain · 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
Sits inside
CottalesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Perciformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Perciformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Perciformes

Time the record covers

At least 5.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 39.1 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 42.6 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Eocene — about 3 of 7 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 7 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 7 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 7 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.8–8.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.5–7.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.2–5.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.9–4.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39.1 Mya33.9 Mya43.3 Mya4.6 Mya

7 occurrences of Liparidae on record. 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

7 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

Boom Clay — 51.09°N, 4.40°EPeresheek Mountain — 58.58°N, 163.60°E

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The named rock units Liparidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

43 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Liparidae, 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

Each of the 7 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 content1

Picture of Liparidae

Credit
Kitty Mecklenburg
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Liparidae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.