Tonganago coplandi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TonganagoPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Anguilliformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Anguilliformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Anguilliformes
Time the record covers
At least 6.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 25.2 Mya to 18.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 15.9 Mya.
10 occurrences of Tonganago coplandi on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
10 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
6 formations
- Southburn Sand Formation3
- Chatton Formation2
- Calamity Point Sandstone Formation1
- Mount Harris Formation1
- Rifle Butts Formation1
- Rifle Butts Siltstone Formation1
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The named rock units Tonganago coplandi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tonganago coplandi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Tonganago coplandi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
92 taxa- Hemerocoetes minutus8 sites
- Acropoma serrata7 sites
- Euclichthys novaezeelandiae7 sites
- Gnathophis ornatus7 sites
- Pomadasyidarum longicaudatus7 sites
- Auchenoceros bicaudatus6 sites
- Macruronus pukeuriensis6 sites
- Waitahana sagittiformis6 sites
- Waitakia robusta6 sites
- Carapus praecursor5 sites
- Caulopsetta arnoglossoides5 sites
- Parapercis finlayi5 sites
- Platycephalus maxwelli5 sites
- Austrophycis pseudomegalops4 sites
- Echiodon teres4 sites
- Encheliophis strigosus4 sites
- Leptoscopus progressus4 sites
- Sillaginodes albisaxosus4 sites
- Arnoglossus longus3 sites
- Coelorinchus divulgatus3 sites
- Coelorinchus preaustralis3 sites
- Evynnis abax3 sites
- Lepidorhynchus frosti3 sites
- Sillago recta3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Tonganago coplandi, 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 otoliths9
- Otoliths reveal diverse fish communities in Late Oligocene estuarine to deep-water paleoenvironments in southern Zealandia1
Each of the 10 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 content0
No picture of Tonganago coplandi 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 Tonganago coplandi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tonganago coplandi 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 itTonganago through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schwarzhans et al. 2017