Trachinus

Trachinus is a genus of ray-finned fish in the weever family Trachinidae consisting of eight extant species and a few extinct species. All species of the genus inhabit the waters of the eastern Atlantic Ocean with the exception of T. cornutus, which inhabits the southeastern part of the Pacific Ocean. Three of the seven Atlantic species occur near the coasts of Europe.

Trachinus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TrachinidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 51 occurrencesEocene — about 13 of 51 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 11 of 51 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 25 of 51 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 51 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 51 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 4 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–8.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.2–6.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.4–4.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.5–2.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.6–716 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence48.07 Mya2.58 Mya57 Mya716 ka

51 occurrences of Trachinus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

51 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

10 formations

Selsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WMoodys Branch — 31.90°N, 88.69°WMoodys Branch — 31.89°N, 88.39°WOosterhout — 51.70°N, 5.73°EAlzey — 49.83°N, 7.72°EBassevelde Sand — 51.08°N, 4.35°EBerchem — 51.20°N, 4.44°ESant’Agata Fossili — 45.07°N, 7.94°EWeches — 31.22°N, 96.04°W“upper” Lisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WPiney Point — 37.61°N, 76.76°W

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The named rock units Trachinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 37 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Trachinus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Trachinus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,065 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Trachinus, 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

21 references

Each of the 51 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. 9 further references are not listed. 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 Trachinus

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CT scan

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Specimen
Trachinus draco · UF:Fish:208499

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTrachinidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758