Clupeiformes

Clupeiformes is the order of ray-finned fish that includes the herring family, Clupeidae, and the anchovy family, Engraulidae and sardines. The group includes many of the most important forage and food fish.

Clupeiformes

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ClupeiPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
nektonicPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 121 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 521 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 521 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 19 of 521 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 7 of 521 occurrencesEocene — about 57 of 521 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 82 of 521 occurrencesMiocene — about 224 of 521 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 64 of 521 occurrencesPleistocene — about 55 of 521 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 1 occurrence122–117 Mya — about 2 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 1 occurrence112–107 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 3 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 3 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 3 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 2 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 3 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 5 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 4 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 8 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 13 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 11 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 12 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 13 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 49 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 29 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 24 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 46 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 49 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 117 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 118 occurrences121.4 Mya11.7 ka146 Mya0 Mya

521 occurrences of Clupeiformes 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

521 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

113 formations

Pisco — 15.58°S, 74.72°WPisco — 14.56°S, 75.67°WPisco — 15.44°S, 74.87°WPisco — 15.50°S, 74.80°WPisco — 15.55°S, 74.80°WPisco — 14.35°S, 75.88°WModelo — 34.13°N, 118.42°WModelo — 34.13°N, 118.48°WModelo — 34.37°N, 119.24°WModelo — 34.08°N, 118.24°WModelo — 34.15°N, 118.47°WMonterey — 33.71°N, 118.31°WMonterey — 34.11°N, 118.42°WMonterey — 34.61°N, 120.44°WMonterey — 33.79°N, 117.81°WMonterey — 34.08°N, 118.17°WMonterey — 33.91°N, 117.92°WGreen River — 41.77°N, 110.75°WGreen River — 41.87°N, 110.68°WGreen River — 41.67°N, 110.67°WGreen River — 41.78°N, 110.73°WGreen River — 42.13°N, 110.13°WRaz-el-Ain — 35.71°N, 0.64°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.90°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.75°N, 118.29°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.75°N, 118.29°WLindos Bay — 36.09°N, 28.01°ELindos Bay — 36.26°N, 28.17°ELindos Bay — 36.36°N, 28.21°EMount Harris — 45.15°S, 170.93°EMount Harris — 44.82°S, 170.88°EMount Harris — 45.03°S, 171.02°EMenilite — 49.49°N, 17.79°EMenilite — 49.20°N, 17.20°EMenilite — 49.42°N, 17.75°EKreyenhagen — 37.08°N, 120.48°WKreyenhagen — 36.90°N, 120.28°WKreyenhagen — 36.55°N, 120.55°WTumey — 36.55°N, 120.55°WMakrilia — 35.04°N, 25.76°EGutingkeng — 22.84°N, 120.41°EGutingkeng — 23.00°N, 120.42°ETamiami — 27.34°N, 82.51°WSouthburn Sand — 44.30°S, 171.00°ESouthburn Sand — 44.37°S, 170.91°EBahía Inglesa — 27.04°S, 70.81°WBahía Inglesa — 27.17°S, 70.87°WFinikia — 35.30°N, 25.27°EGatun — 9.36°N, 79.84°WChiusole — 45.54°N, 10.85°EMenilite — 49.75°N, 22.35°EMenilite — 49.63°N, 22.57°ECook Mountain — 31.33°N, 95.52°WCook Mountain — 32.03°N, 88.70°WYokosuka — 35.26°N, 139.72°EKuri — 35.42°N, 132.94°ERupel — 51.22°N, 12.33°E

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The named rock units Clupeiformes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 89 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 296 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Clupeiformes and its relatives

Miocene

Where Clupeiformes and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

4,473 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 326 sites for Clupeiformes, and this reads 240 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

197 references

Each of the 521 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. 185 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 Clupeiformes

Credit
No machine-readable author provided. Uwe kils assumed (based on copyright claims).
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bleeker 1859