Paraconger

Paraconger is a genus of eels in the family Congridae. It currently contains the following species:Paraconger californiensis Kanazawa, 1961 Paraconger caudilimbatus (Poey, 1867) Paraconger guianensis Kanazawa, 1961 Paraconger macrops (Günther, 1870) Paraconger notialis Kanazawa, 1961 Paraconger ophichthys (Garman, 1899) Paraconger similis (Wade, 1946)

Paraconger

Wade, C.B. 1946. Two new genera and five new species of apodal fishes from the eastern Pacific. Allan Hancock Pacific… · CC BY 4.0 · 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
CongridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Anguilliformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Anguilliformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Anguilliformes

Time the record covers

At least 42 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 28 occurrencesEocene — about 20 of 28 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 28 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 5 of 28 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 28 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 28 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–33 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–8.9 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences8.9–7.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences7.1–5.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.2–3.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.4–1.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48.07 Mya5.333 Mya57 Mya2 Mya

28 occurrences of Paraconger on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

28 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

17 formations

Nanjemoy — 37.75°N, 77.33°WNanjemoy — 38.72°N, 76.93°WNanjemoy — 38.42°N, 77.00°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WBashi — 31.93°N, 87.87°WBashi — 32.36°N, 88.72°WCook Mountain — 30.61°N, 96.57°WCook Mountain — 31.33°N, 95.52°WRosefield — 31.89°N, 92.00°WYazoo — 31.93°N, 91.94°WCantaure — 11.97°N, 70.02°WOnzole — 0.87°N, 79.89°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.84°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WLede — 50.92°N, 3.78°ECalcaire Grossier — 49.31°N, 2.25°EWeches — 31.22°N, 96.04°WHatchetigbee — 31.65°N, 88.09°WKosciusko — 32.02°N, 88.71°WPiney Point — 37.61°N, 76.76°W

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The named rock units Paraconger has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paraconger and its relatives

Eocene

Where Paraconger and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

752 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Paraconger, 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

16 references

Each of the 28 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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

Media content1

Picture of Paraconger

Credit
Wade, C.B. 1946. Two new genera and five new species of apodal fishes from the eastern Pacific. Allan Hancock Pacific…
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Paraconger 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 itCongridae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kanazawa 1961