Phareodus testis
No picture of Phareodus testis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Phareodus testis itself, so it was not used. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Phareodus testis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PhareodusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Osteoglossiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Osteoglossiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteoglossiformes
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Osteoglossiformes
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Phareodus testis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
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The named rock units Phareodus testis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Phareodus testis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Phareodus testis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Ailanthus1 site
- Amia fragosa1 site
- Amia uintaensis1 site
- Atractosteus atrox1 site
- Atractosteus simplex1 site
- Crossopholis magnicaudatus1 site
- Cuneatus cuneatus1 site
- Dapedoglossus aequipinnis1 site
- Eohiodon1 site
- Eugnamptus1 site
- Fulgoroidea1 site
- Heliobatis radians1 site
- Knightia eocaena1 site
- Limnofregata azygosternon1 site
- Phareodus encaustus1 site
- Pinus1 site
- Plecia pealei1 site
- Populus1 site
- Rhus1 site
- Sabalites1 site
- Swartzia wardelii1 site
- Trionyx1 site
- Typha1 site
- Viviparus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Phareodus testis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- The species of †Phareodus (Teleostei: Osteoglossidae) from the Eocene of North America and their phylogenetic relationships1
- Paleontology of the Green River Formation, with a review of the fish fauna1
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. 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
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No picture of Phareodus testis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Phareodus testis itself, so it was not used.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Phareodus testis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Phareodus testis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPhareodus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1877