Clupea

Clupea is a genus of planktivorous bony fish belonging to the family Clupeidae, commonly known as herrings. They are found in the shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific and the North Atlantic oceans, including the Baltic Sea. Two main species of Clupea are currently recognized: the Atlantic herring and the Pacific herring, which have each been divided into subspecies. Herrings are forage fish moving in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America, where they form important commercial fisheries.

Clupea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ClupeidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Clupeiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Clupeiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Clupeiformes

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 54 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 54 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 54 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 54 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 54 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 14 of 54 occurrencesMiocene — about 29 of 54 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 54 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 54 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence83–78 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–58 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 8 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 5 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 7 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 8 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 6 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 8 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences93.9 Mya11.7 ka146 Mya0 Mya

54 occurrences of Clupea 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

54 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

17 formations

Viso — 40.25°N, 8.72°WRupel — 51.22°N, 12.33°EKidong — 41.11°N, 129.36°EMenilite — 49.49°N, 17.79°EModelo — 34.08°N, 118.24°WMonterey — 33.79°N, 117.81°WZuramakent horizon — 43.66°N, 43.89°ETsurevsky — 44.41°N, 39.79°EBessho — 36.44°N, 138.17°EEl Mene — 11.04°N, 68.49°WAhlen — 51.83°N, 7.83°EZdanice-Hustopece — 49.13°N, 16.86°EStudienka — 48.44°N, 17.16°ELameta — 21.18°N, 80.37°EMiyata — 35.19°N, 39.65°ESan Pedro — 33.75°N, 118.29°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°W

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The named rock units Clupea 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.

Clupea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Clupea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

735 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Clupea, 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

36 references

Each of the 54 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. 24 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 Clupea

Credit
Unknown author Unknown author
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

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

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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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What may have been alongside itClupeidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

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