Myctophum evermanni

Myctophum evermanni Gilbert, 1905, a relative of Myctophum evermanni — not Myctophum evermanni itself

Not Myctophum evermanni. This is Myctophum evermanni Gilbert, 1905, a relative — both are Myctophidae.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MyctophumPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Myctophiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Myctophiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Myctophiformes

Time the record covers

At most 1.1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Pliocene — about 4 of 4 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 4 occurrences3.6–3.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.6–3.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.5–3.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.4–3.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.4–3.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.3–3.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.2–3.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.2–3.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.0–3.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.0–2.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.9–2.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.8–2.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.8–2.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.6–2.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.1 Mya2.08 Mya

4 occurrences of Myctophum evermanni on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

4 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

Nobori — 33.37°N, 134.06°EShinzato — 26.36°N, 127.98°E

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The named rock units Myctophum evermanni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Myctophum evermanni and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Myctophum evermanni and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

21 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Myctophum evermanni, 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 reference

Each 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

Media content1

Picture of Myctophum evermanni Gilbert, 1905

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Myctophum evermanni 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 itMyctophum through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gilbert 1905)