Spratelloides gracilis

The silver-stripe round herring, slender sprat, or Kibinago minnow is a small, herring-like forage fish. They are small fish used as fishing bait, especially in skipjack tuna-fishing. It is valued as food in Japan, where it is known as kibinago. These can be eaten raw, as sashimi, or cooked, as whitebait.

Spratelloides gracilis

Xavier Romero-Frias · CC BY 3.0 · 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpratelloidesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Clupeiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Clupeiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Clupeiformes

Time the record covers

At least 2.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Miocene — about 9 of 21 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 11 of 21 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 21 occurrencesPleistocene7.3–7.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.1–6.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.9–6.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.7–6.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.5–6.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.2–6.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.0–5.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.8–5.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.6–5.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.2–5.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.0–4.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.7–3.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.4–3.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.2–3.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.0–2.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.8–2.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.6–2.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.4–2.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.2–1.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.9–1.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.333 Mya2.58 Mya7.7 Mya1.3 Mya

21 occurrences of Spratelloides gracilis on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

21 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

2 formations

Finikia — 35.30°N, 25.27°ERaz-el-Ain — 35.71°N, 0.64°W

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The named rock units Spratelloides gracilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spratelloides gracilis and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Spratelloides gracilis and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

266 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Spratelloides gracilis, 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

10 references

Each of the 21 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 Spratelloides gracilis

Credit
Xavier Romero-Frias
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Spratelloides gracilis 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

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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 itSpratelloides through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Temminck and Schlegel 1846)