Parachaeturichthys sp.
Parachaeturichthys is a genus of gobies native to deep waters of the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.

George Henry Ford · Public Domain · 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 8.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 3.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Parachaeturichthys 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
2 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
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The named rock units Parachaeturichthys sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Parachaeturichthys sp. and its relatives
MioceneWhere Parachaeturichthys sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
60 taxa- Apogonidae2 sites
- Gobiidae2 sites
- Acropoma1 site
- Antigonia1 site
- Argyrosomus1 site
- Ariosoma1 site
- Arius1 site
- Bathycongrus1 site
- Benthosema duanformis1 site
- Benthosema parafibulatum1 site
- Benthosema pterotum1 site
- Benthosema suborbitale1 site
- Bolinichthys1 site
- Bothidae1 site
- Bregmaceros1 site
- Bythitidae1 site
- Callionymidae1 site
- Carangidae1 site
- Champsodon1 site
- Clupeidae1 site
- Coelorinchus1 site
- Congridae1 site
- Cynoglossus sp.1 site
- Diaphus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Parachaeturichthys 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- Early Pliocene otolith assemblages from the outer-shelf environment reveal the establishment of mesopelagic fish fauna over 3 million years ago in southwestern Taiwan1
- Late Miocene otoliths from northern Taiwan: insights into the rarely known Neogene coastal fish community of the subtropical northwest Pacific1
Each of the 2 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 Parachaeturichthys sp.
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- George Henry Ford
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Parachaeturichthys sp. 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.
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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.