Peltorhamphus novaezeelandiae

The New Zealand sole, also known as the common sole, is a righteye flounder of the genus Peltorhamphus, found around New Zealand in shallow enclosed waters less than 100 m in depth. Their length is from 25 to 45 cm.

Peltorhamphus novaezeelandiae

Dr Tony Ayling · CC BY-SA 1.0 · 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
PeltorhamphusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pleuronectiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Pleuronectiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Pleuronectiformes

Time the record covers

At least 1.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1.63 Mya to 340 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Pliocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 3 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.1–2.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.0–1.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences387 ka–290 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290 ka–193 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences193 ka–97 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences97 ka–0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.63 Mya340 ka2.9 Mya0 Mya

3 occurrences of Peltorhamphus novaezeelandiae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

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.

Peltorhamphus novaezeelandiae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Peltorhamphus novaezeelandiae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

34 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Peltorhamphus novaezeelandiae, 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

1 reference

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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Peltorhamphus novaezeelandiae

Credit
Dr Tony Ayling
Licence
CC BY-SA 1.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Peltorhamphus novaezeelandiae 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

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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 itPeltorhamphus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Günther 1862