Pristigenys

Pristigenys is a genus of marine ray-finned fish in the family Priacanthidae. It contains five extant species and one extinct species, P. substriata, which is known from fossils found in the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy.

Pristigenys

SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC. · 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PriacanthidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 12.8 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 16 occurrencesEocene — about 8 of 16 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 16 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 16 occurrencesMiocene57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence48.07 Mya13.82 Mya56.9 Mya11.9 Mya

16 occurrences of Pristigenys 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

16 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

7 formations

Calcaire Grossier — 49.31°N, 2.25°EHrušky — 48.81°N, 16.63°EElmore — 50.80°N, 1.21°WRosefield — 31.89°N, 92.00°WYazoo — 31.93°N, 91.94°WNanggulan — 7.73°S, 110.18°ELede — 50.92°N, 3.78°E

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The named rock units Pristigenys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pristigenys and its relatives

Eocene

Where Pristigenys and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

851 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Pristigenys, 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

12 references

Each of the 16 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

Media content1

Picture of Pristigenys

Credit
SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC.
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pristigenys 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 itPriacanthidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1835