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Flying Gurnards

Dactylopteridae

ecomorphological guild

Paleobiology Database
nectonic
URI: http://www.marinespecies.org/traits/Nekton

Definition: Active swimming organisms that live in the water column and are able to move independently of the water mass (adapted from Lincoln et al., 1998).

Attribution: http://www.marinespecies.org/traits/wiki/Traits:Nekton

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extinction status

Paleobiology Database
extant
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/extant

Definition: This taxon is still in existence, as opposed to extinct.

Attribution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extant_taxon

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first appearance

Paleobiology Database

5.333 million years ago

(max)
Paleobiology Database
pliocene epoch
URI: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Pliocene

Attribution: International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale

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last appearance

Paleobiology Database
gelasian age
URI: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Gelasian

Attribution: International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale

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Paleobiology Database

1.806 million years ago

(min)

motility

Paleobiology Database
actively mobile
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/activelyMobile

Definition: uses self-propelled locomotion to change location on a regular basis

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(adult)

number of fossil occurrences

Paleobiology Database

5

trophic guild

Paleobiology Database
omnivore
URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q164509

Definition: organism consuming a variety of foods, usually including both plants and animals

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