Symbolophorus boops
Symbolophorus boops is a species of fish in the family Myctophidae.
No picture of Symbolophorus boops 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 Symbolophorus boops, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SymbolophorusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Myctophiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Myctophiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Myctophiformes
Time the record covers
At least 1.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.7 Mya to 2.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 1.63 Mya.
4 occurrences of Symbolophorus boops 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
4 occurrences- Pliocene56%
- Pleistocene44%
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.
Symbolophorus boops and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Symbolophorus boops and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
49 taxa- Macruronus novaezeelandiae4 sites
- Lampanyctodes hectoris3 sites
- Micromesistius australis3 sites
- Notoscopelus resplendens3 sites
- Coelorinchus carminatus2 sites
- Galeichthys ohei2 sites
- Genypterus elongatus2 sites
- Gnathophis umbrellabius2 sites
- Hemerocoetes monopterygius2 sites
- Merluccius2 sites
- Saccogaster citreus2 sites
- Aldrichetta forsteri1 site
- Arnoglossus grenfelli1 site
- Auchenoceros1 site
- Bassanago1 site
- Coelorhynchus1 site
- Coelorinchus asperocephalus1 site
- Coelorinchus fasciatus1 site
- Coelorinchus oliverianus1 site
- Diaphus danae1 site
- Electrona (Electrona)1 site
- Electrona paucirastra1 site
- Electrona risso1 site
- Gadiculus argenteus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Symbolophorus boops, 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- Reconstruction of the fossil marine bony fish fauna (Teleostei) from the Eocene to Pleistocene of New Zealand by means of otoliths. With studies of Recent congroid, morid and trachinoid otoliths3
- Fish otoliths from the New Zealand Tertiary1
Each 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Symbolophorus boops 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 Symbolophorus boops, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Symbolophorus boops 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
- Licence
- 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 itSymbolophorus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Richardson 1845)