Sphyraena kugleri
No picture of Sphyraena kugleri was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Sphyraena kugleri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SphyraenaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Sphyraena kugleri 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
4 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
3 formations
- Mount Hillaby Formation · Oceanic Group2
- Bissex Hill Formation1
- Codrington College Formation · Oceanic Group1
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The named rock units Sphyraena kugleri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sphyraena kugleri and its relatives
EoceneWhere Sphyraena kugleri and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Euselachii3 sites
- Squaliolus schaubi3 sites
- Labriformes2 sites
- Lamnidae2 sites
- Odontaspididae2 sites
- Squaliformes2 sites
- Carcharhinus egertoni1 site
- Carcharodon hastalis1 site
- Centrophorus1 site
- Cheirostephanus hurzeleri1 site
- Diodon1 site
- Etmopterus acutidens1 site
- Eutrichiurides1 site
- Hemipristis serra1 site
- Isurus1 site
- Isurus desorii1 site
- Lepidopus1 site
- Odontaspis1 site
- Scoliodon1 site
- Sphyraena senni1 site
- Sphyraenidarum sp.1 site
- Sphyrna laevissima1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Sphyraena kugleri, 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 4 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
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No picture of Sphyraena kugleri was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Sphyraena kugleri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sphyraena kugleri 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSphyraena through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Casier 1966