Mene oblonga

Mene oblonga is an extinct species of ray-finned fish that first appeared in the Monte Bolca Lagerstatten during the Lutetian epoch of the Eocene. For a menid, it has a very shallow body, especially in comparison with the sympatric Mene rhombea. Its fossils are very rare in Monte Bolca. A single fossil from the early Oligocene, referred to as "Mene oblonga var. pusilla," was found in Chiavon, Italy.

Mene oblonga

Skye McDavid · CC BY 4.0 · 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
MenePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 3 occurrencesMiocene57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48.07 Mya23.04 Mya56.8 Mya15.2 Mya

3 occurrences of Mene oblonga on record. 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

3 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 the same rock

301 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Mene oblonga, 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 3 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 Mene oblonga

Credit
Skye McDavid
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Mene oblonga 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 itMene through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1833