Setipinna cf. retusa
Setipinna, the hairfin anchovies, is a genus of anchovies. These fish derive their name from the long, filamentous extension of the pectoral fins that is found in most species. It currently contains eight recognized species.

BEDO (Thailand) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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.
Time the record covers
At most 6.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Setipinna cf. retusa on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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- Miocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Setipinna cf. retusa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Setipinna cf. retusa and its relatives
MioceneWhere Setipinna cf. retusa and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Ariidae2 sites
- Bruneisciaena schwarzhansi2 sites
- Coilia planata2 sites
- Dendrophysa angulata2 sites
- Gobiidae2 sites
- Pomadasys2 sites
- Advenasciaena bruneiana1 site
- Boesemania obesa1 site
- Bregmaceros1 site
- Coilia cf. mystus1 site
- Dendrophysa sp.1 site
- Nibea1 site
- Nibea ambugensis1 site
- Nibea stintoni1 site
- Protonibea nolfi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Setipinna cf. retusa, 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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Setipinna cf. retusa
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- BEDO (Thailand)
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Credit
- Bell Museum fishes
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Setipinna taty · JFBM:Fishes:48749
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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Setipinna”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.