Stolephorus
Stolephorus is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Engraulidae. They are found in Atlantic and Indo-pacific
Harutaka Hata, Lauren Sallan, Hiroyuki Motomura · 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
- EngraulidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Clupeiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Clupeiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Clupeiformes
Time the record covers
At least 1.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 13.82 Mya to 3.6 Mya.
3 occurrences of Stolephorus on record. 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
3 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 Stolephorus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Apogonidae2 sites
- Bathycongrus2 sites
- Benthosema duanformis2 sites
- Benthosema parafibulatum2 sites
- Benthosema pterotum2 sites
- Bothidae2 sites
- Bregmaceros2 sites
- Coelorinchus2 sites
- Congridae2 sites
- Diaphus2 sites
- Diaphus chrysorhynchus2 sites
- Engraulis japonicus2 sites
- Gobiidae2 sites
- Gutingichthys changi2 sites
- Hymenocephalus2 sites
- Myctophidae2 sites
- Myersina filifer2 sites
- Onuxodon2 sites
- Polyipnus2 sites
- Priolepis sp.2 sites
- Acropoma1 site
- Antigonia1 site
- Arnoglossus1 site
- Benthosema suborbitale1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Stolephorus, 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
2 references- Early Pliocene otolith assemblages from the outer-shelf environment reveal the establishment of mesopelagic fish fauna over 3 million years ago in southwestern Taiwan2
- Otoliths from the Miocene of West Africa, primarily from the Mandorové Formation of Gabon1
Each of the 3 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 Stolephorus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Harutaka Hata, Lauren Sallan, Hiroyuki Motomura
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- 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
- Stolephorus nelsoni · JFBM:Fishes:48063
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, “Stolephorus”
- 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 itEngraulidae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lacépède 1803