Carangidae

The Carangidae are a family of ray-finned fish that includes the jacks, jack mackerels, runners, trevallies, and scads. It is one of the five families in the suborder Carangoidei.

Carangidae

Yinan Chen · Public Domain · 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
CarangiformesPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 161 occurrencesPaleocene — about 4 of 161 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 21 of 161 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 13 of 161 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 65 of 161 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 17 of 161 occurrencesPleistocene — about 28 of 161 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 3 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 4 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 4 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 5 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 6 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 6 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 7 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 7 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 12 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 22 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 16 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 37 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

161 occurrences of Carangidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

161 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

49 formations

Monterey — 33.56°N, 117.71°WMonterey — 34.61°N, 120.44°WRaz-el-Ain — 35.71°N, 0.64°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.84°WModelo — 34.13°N, 118.48°WModelo — 34.15°N, 118.47°WModelo — 34.14°N, 118.44°WHrušky — 48.81°N, 16.63°ELa Portada — 23.11°S, 70.36°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WWeybourne Crag — 52.93°N, 1.15°EWeybourne Crag — 52.90°N, 1.39°ELondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ETonasa — 5.05°S, 119.69°EKreyenhagen — 36.90°N, 120.28°WKreyenhagen — 36.55°N, 120.55°WLindos Bay — 36.09°N, 28.01°ELindos Bay — 36.36°N, 28.21°EBoom Clay — 51.25°N, 4.23°EBoom Clay — 51.12°N, 4.35°EQuilon — 8.81°N, 76.65°ECastle Hayne — 35.01°N, 77.57°WYsidro — 26.23°N, 112.50°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WCromer Forest Bed — 52.94°N, 1.27°ENorwich Crag — 52.53°N, 1.59°EValmonte — 33.78°N, 118.33°WEbelsberg — 48.21°N, 14.22°ENanjemoy — 38.28°N, 77.37°WCantaure — 11.97°N, 70.02°WRosarito Beach — 32.12°N, 116.80°W

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The named rock units Carangidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 90 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Carangidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Carangidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,327 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 118 sites for Carangidae, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

84 references

Each of the 161 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. 72 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 Carangidae

Credit
Yinan Chen
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Carangidae indet. · muvp:MUVP 807

Smithsonian Open Access 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rafinesque 1815