Porichthys myriaster
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PorichthysPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Batrachoidiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Batrachoidiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Batrachoidiformes
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.
6 occurrences of Porichthys myriaster 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
6 occurrences- Pliocene17%
- Pleistocene83%
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 Porichthys myriaster 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.
Porichthys myriaster and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Porichthys myriaster and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
445 taxa- Galeorhinus galeus6 sites
- Genyonemus lineatus6 sites
- Myliobatis californica6 sites
- Citharichthys stigmaeus5 sites
- Cymatogaster aggregata5 sites
- Ophidion scrippsae5 sites
- Porichthys notatus5 sites
- Seriphus politus5 sites
- Chilara taylori4 sites
- Citharichthys sordidus4 sites
- Engraulis mordax4 sites
- Hirtoscala tincta4 sites
- Lepidogobius lepidus4 sites
- Paralichthys californicus4 sites
- Raja4 sites
- Semicossyphus pulcher4 sites
- Squatina californica4 sites
- Triakis semifasciata4 sites
- Atherinopsis californiensis3 sites
- Cancer productus3 sites
- Carcharhinus3 sites
- Carcharodon carcharias3 sites
- Citharichthys3 sites
- Cynoscion reticulatus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Porichthys myriaster, 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
3 references- Fish remains, mostly otoliths and teeth, from the Palos Verdes Sand (Late Pleistocene) of California4
- Otoliths and other fish remains from a Long Beach, California, Pliocene deposit1
- Fish records from the Pleistocene of southern California in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum1
Each of the 6 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 Porichthys myriaster was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Porichthys myriaster, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Porichthys myriaster 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hubbs and Schultz 1939