Maurolicus aegrotus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MaurolicusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Sternoptychidae
Life habit
nektonic, depth=deepPBDB, for Sternoptychidae
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Sternoptychidae
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Sternoptychidae
Environment
oceanic,marinePBDB, for Sternoptychidae

Time the record covers

At least 3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 21.7 Mya to 18.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 25.2 Mya to 15.9 Mya.

Oligocene — about 2 of 12 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 10 of 12 occurrencesMiocene25–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21.7 Mya18.7 Mya25.7 Mya15.4 Mya

12 occurrences of Maurolicus aegrotus 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

12 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

4 formations

Mount Harris — 44.48°S, 170.90°EMount Harris — 45.15°S, 170.93°EMount Harris — 44.82°S, 170.88°ERifle Butts Siltstone — 45.14°S, 170.93°EWaioha Shellbeds — 34.50°S, 172.96°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.85°S, 170.52°E

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The named rock units Maurolicus aegrotus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Maurolicus aegrotus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Maurolicus aegrotus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

139 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Maurolicus aegrotus, 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

2 references

Each of the 12 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

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

No 3D scan of Maurolicus aegrotus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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 itMaurolicus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

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