Myctophum jacksoni
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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 9.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Myctophum jacksoni on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
7 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.
Found in
2 formations
- Cayo Agua Formation · Bocas del Toro Group4
- Cubagua Formation2
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The named rock units Myctophum jacksoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Myctophum jacksoni and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Myctophum jacksoni and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Diaphus dumerilii3 sites
- Hygophum macrochir3 sites
- Bregmaceros cantori2 sites
- Diaphus2 sites
- Diaphus aequalis2 sites
- Diaphus apalus2 sites
- Diaphus depressifrons2 sites
- Diaphus hataii2 sites
- Lampanyctus latesulcatus2 sites
- Merluccius2 sites
- Steindachneria argentea2 sites
- Symbolophorus2 sites
- Coelorinchus1 site
- Diaphus barrigonensis1 site
- Diaphus brachycephalus1 site
- Diaphus capax1 site
- Diaphus splendidus1 site
- Electrona rissoi1 site
- Hygophum taaningi1 site
- Isistius triangulus1 site
- Lampadena dea1 site
- Lampanyctus1 site
- Lampanyctus nobilis1 site
- Lepidophanes inflectus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Myctophum jacksoni, 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- Otoliths of the Myctophidae from the Neogene of tropical America5
- An exceptional coastal upwelling fish assemblage in the Caribbean Neogene2
Each of the 7 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Myctophum jacksoni 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 Myctophum jacksoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Myctophum jacksoni 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 itMyctophum through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Aguilera and de Aguilera 2001)