Scopelogadus

Scopelogadus is a genus of ridgeheads. The generic name derives from the Greek σκόπελος and γάδος.

Scopelogadus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MelamphaidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Beryciformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Beryciformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Beryciformes

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 18.7 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 21.7 Mya to 129 ka.

Miocene — about 13 of 16 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 16 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 16 occurrencesPleistocene22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.6–8.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.9–8.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.1–7.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.4–6.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.7–5.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.9–5.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.2–4.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.4–3.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.7–3.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.0–2.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.2–1.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.5–740 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences740 ka–0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences18.7 Mya774 ka22.2 Mya0 Mya

16 occurrences of Scopelogadus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

4 formations

Puente — 33.84°N, 117.82°WCapistrano — 33.47°N, 117.68°WWaioha Shellbeds — 34.50°S, 172.96°ETimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°W

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The named rock units Scopelogadus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scopelogadus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Scopelogadus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

332 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Scopelogadus, 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

9 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 content2

Picture of Scopelogadus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Scopelogadus mizolepis mizolepis · YPM:VZ:YPM ICH 010128

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itMelamphaidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vaillant 1888