Uranoscopus

Uranoscopus is a genus of stargazer fish from the family Uranoscopidae. The genus name Uranoscopus is from Ancient Greek οὐρανός (ouranós), meaning "sky, heaven", and σκοπέω (skopéō), meaning "to look".

Uranoscopus

riblje-oko.hr · 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
UranoscopidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 39.1 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 42.6 Mya to 774 ka.

Eocene — about 2 of 14 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 14 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 9 of 14 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 14 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–25 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–8.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.7–7.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.2–5.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.8–4.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.9–1.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.4–0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences39.1 Mya1.8 Mya43.4 Mya0 Mya

14 occurrences of Uranoscopus 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

14 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

8 formations

Chatton — 46.11°S, 168.80°EDouble Corner Shellbed — 43.11°S, 172.78°ESouthburn Sand — 44.37°S, 170.91°ERifle Butts Siltstone — 45.06°S, 170.95°EMount Harris — 45.03°S, 171.02°EHrušky — 48.81°N, 16.63°ELiuchungchi — 23.44°N, 120.59°ETapu — 24.96°N, 121.38°E

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The named rock units Uranoscopus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Uranoscopus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Uranoscopus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

370 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Uranoscopus, 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

7 references

Each of the 14 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 content3

Picture of Uranoscopus

Credit
riblje-oko.hr
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Notropis uranoscopus · JFBM:Fishes:43074

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itUranoscopidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

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