Dentex

Dentex is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sparidae, which includes the seabreams and porgies. The fishes in this genus are found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the eastern Indian and Western Pacific Oceans.

Dentex

Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
SparidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Perciformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Perciformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Perciformes

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 99 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 99 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 13 of 99 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 13 of 99 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 53 of 99 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 99 occurrencesPleistocene — about 9 of 99 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 5 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 6 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 7 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 12 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 10 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 5 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 6 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 9 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 7 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

99 occurrences of Dentex 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

99 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

23 formations

Hrušky — 48.81°N, 16.63°ELindos Bay — 36.09°N, 28.01°ELindos Bay — 36.26°N, 28.17°ELindos Bay — 36.36°N, 28.21°ELagos-Portimão — 37.08°N, 8.28°WLagos-Portimão — 37.12°N, 8.54°WLagos-Portimão — 37.08°N, 8.67°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WRifle Butts — 45.08°S, 170.95°ERifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°EChatton — 46.11°S, 168.80°ESant’Agata Fossili — 45.07°N, 7.94°EUpper Bhuban — 23.00°N, 93.00°EAlzey — 49.83°N, 7.72°ECalcarenites of Sant Elm — 39.92°N, 3.06°ERaz-el-Ain — 35.71°N, 0.64°WEger — 47.90°N, 20.40°ERío Banano — 9.92°N, 83.55°WWharekuri Greensand — 44.70°S, 170.43°EBerchem — 51.20°N, 4.44°EArgile des Flandres — 51.11°N, 3.71°ECalcare Massiccio — 42.93°N, 11.87°EArgille Azzurre — 44.26°N, 11.66°ESzurdokpüspöki — 47.93°N, 19.76°EAalter — 51.19°N, 3.31°EGliwice — 50.31°N, 18.61°ESkawina — 50.28°N, 18.75°E

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The named rock units Dentex has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 60 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dentex and its relatives

Miocene

Where Dentex and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,930 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 76 sites for Dentex, 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

51 references

Each of the 99 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. 39 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 Dentex

Credit
Diego Delso
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cuvier 1815)