Thyrsites
Leionura atun, known as the snoek in South Africa and as the barracouta in Australasia, is a long, thin species of snake mackerel found in the seas of the Southern Hemisphere, and a common food fish in South Africa, particularly along the west and southwest coast. Despite its Australasian name, it is not closely related to the barracuda.
Discott · CC BY-SA 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
- GempylidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Thyrsites on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Thyrsites and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Thyrsites and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Rattus exulans2 sites
- Arctocephalus1 site
- Ardenna grisea1 site
- Cetacea1 site
- Cilus1 site
- Fulica armillata1 site
- Fulmarus glacialoides1 site
- Larus dominicanus1 site
- Myocastor coypus1 site
- Otaria byronia1 site
- Phalacrocorax1 site
- Phocarctos hookeri1 site
- Rodentia indet.1 site
- Sebastes1 site
- Sicyases sanguineus1 site
- Thalassarche melanophris1 site
- Turdus falcklandii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Thyrsites, 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
2 references- On the reliability of archaeological rat bone for hydrocarbon dating in New Zealand2
- Human exploitation of seabirds in coastal southern Chile during the mid-Holocene1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Thyrsites
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Discott
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Thyrsites was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGempylidae through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lesson 1831