Ostorhinchus
Ostorhinchus is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Apogonidae native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
- ApogoninaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Ostorhinchus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
3 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
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The named rock units Ostorhinchus 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.
Ostorhinchus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Ostorhinchus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
55 taxa- Gobiidae3 sites
- Acentrogobius2 sites
- Acentrogobius matsya2 sites
- Amblyeleotris2 sites
- Amblyeleotris kireedam2 sites
- Ancistrogobius indicus2 sites
- Aphia macrophthalma2 sites
- Apistus2 sites
- Apogon2 sites
- Apogonichthyoides2 sites
- Batrachoididae2 sites
- Bregmaceros deklaszi2 sites
- Callionymus2 sites
- Callionymus vyali2 sites
- Carangidae2 sites
- Caranx2 sites
- Cirripectes biconvexus2 sites
- Drombus thackerae2 sites
- Engraulidae2 sites
- Fibramia keralensis2 sites
- Gobiodon burdigalicus2 sites
- Gobius laevis2 sites
- Jaydia quilonica2 sites
- Otolithus circularis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ostorhinchus, 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- New perspectives on late Tethyan Neogene biodiversity development of fishes based on Miocene (~ 17 Ma) otholiths from southwestern India2
- Late Miocene otoliths from northern Taiwan: insights into the rarely known Neogene coastal fish community of the subtropical northwest Pacific1
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Ostorhinchus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ostorhinchus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itApogoninae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lacepede 1802