Spondyliosoma

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SparidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Perciformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Perciformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Perciformes
Time the record covers
At least 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
7 occurrences of Spondyliosoma 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
7 occurrencesThese 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 Spondyliosoma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Spondyliosoma and its relatives
MioceneWhere Spondyliosoma and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
324 taxa- Cepola rubescens5 sites
- Deltentosteus5 sites
- Dentex5 sites
- Lesueurigobius5 sites
- Diaphus taaningi4 sites
- Morone4 sites
- Phycis4 sites
- Brachydeuterus speronatus3 sites
- Carapus acus3 sites
- Dentex (Cheimerius) gibbosus3 sites
- Diaphus kokeni3 sites
- Gobius multipinnatus3 sites
- Lithognathus mormyrus3 sites
- Merluccius merluccius3 sites
- Oxyurichthys sp.3 sites
- Palimphemus anceps3 sites
- Parascombrops3 sites
- Pomadasys incisus3 sites
- Rhynchoconger pantanellii3 sites
- Sparidae3 sites
- Trachurus3 sites
- Apogon2 sites
- Argyrosomus regia2 sites
- Arnoglossus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Spondyliosoma, 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
4 references- Fish otoliths from the Middle Miocene of Kienberg at Mikulov, Czech REpublic, Vienna Basin: Their paleoenvironmental and paleogeographic significance3
- Fish otoliths from the pre-evaporitic (Early Messinian) sediments of northern Italy: their stratigraphic and palaeobiogeographic significance2
- Die Alzey-Formation der klassichen Lokalitat Wlschberg bei Waldbockelheim (Rupelium, Oligozan, Mainzer Becken) - Ergebnisse neuer Grabungen1
- Les otolithes des téléostéens de l'oligo-miocène Belge1
Each of the 7 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 Spondyliosoma
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Spondyliosoma 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 itSparidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cantor 1849