Micromestius cognatus
No picture of Micromestius cognatus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Micromestius cognatus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 29 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Micromestius cognatus 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
4 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.
Micromestius cognatus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Micromestius cognatus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
53 taxa- Dentex nobilis4 sites
- Merluccius merluccius4 sites
- Clupea testis3 sites
- Dentex (Polysteganus) gregarius3 sites
- Diaphus debilis3 sites
- Solea approximata3 sites
- Trachinus acutus3 sites
- Triglidarum3 sites
- Argentina sphyraena2 sites
- Coelorhynchus coelorhynchus2 sites
- Lepidorhombus2 sites
- Morone limburgensis2 sites
- Myripristis2 sites
- Neoscombrops2 sites
- Pagellus2 sites
- Palaeogadus2 sites
- Phycis2 sites
- Trachurus2 sites
- Trisopterus2 sites
- Trisopterus luscus2 sites
- Acanthopterygiorum sp.1 site
- Argentina1 site
- Carapus1 site
- Carapus nuntius1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Micromestius cognatus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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 Micromestius cognatus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Micromestius cognatus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Micromestius cognatus 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 itFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.