Merluccius obtusus
No picture of Merluccius obtusus 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 Merluccius obtusus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MerlucciusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Gadiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Gadiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gadiformes
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Merluccius obtusus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
1 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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.
Merluccius obtusus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Merluccius obtusus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Atherina gidjakensis1 site
- Clupea testis1 site
- Corvina speciosa1 site
- Dentex nobilis1 site
- Gadus elegans1 site
- Karrerichthys latisulcatus1 site
- Merluccius attenuatus1 site
- Merluccius emarginatus1 site
- Ophidiidarum obotritus1 site
- Otolithes1 site
- Percidarum frequens1 site
- Raniceps planus1 site
- Sciaena1 site
- Sciaena amplus1 site
- Sciaena obtusus1 site
- Sparidarum gregarius1 site
- Trigla1 site
- Urophycis tenuis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Merluccius obtusus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 content0
No picture of Merluccius obtusus 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 Merluccius obtusus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Merluccius obtusus 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 itMerluccius through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Koken 1891