Oxyurichthys sp.

Oxyurichthys is a genus of fish in the subfamily Gobionellinae, commonly known as arrowfin gobies. They are distributed in the tropical and subtropical Indian and Pacific Oceans; one species is also known from the western Atlantic Ocean. Most species live in shallow waters under 10 meters deep over fine substrates such as silt.

A picture published with the record for Oxyurichthys sp.. What it shows has not been checked.

A.R. McCulloch & E.R. Waite, (1918) Descriptions of two new Australian Gobies · CC0 · 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.

Time the record covers

At most 1.1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 13.82 Mya and 12.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 4 of 4 occurrencesMiocene14–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14.32 Mya12.3 Mya

4 occurrences of Oxyurichthys sp. 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 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

1 formation

Hrušky — 48.81°N, 16.63°E

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The named rock units Oxyurichthys sp. 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.

Oxyurichthys sp. and its relatives

Miocene

Where Oxyurichthys sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

110 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Oxyurichthys sp., 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

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

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Picture of Oxyurichthys sp.

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A.R. McCulloch & E.R. Waite, (1918) Descriptions of two new Australian Gobies
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Specimen
Oxyurichthys Oxyurichthys auchenolepis · UF:Fish:192606

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.