Diplodus vulgaris

Diplodus vulgaris, the common two-banded sea bream, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sparidae, which includes the seabreams and porgies. This species is found in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean. It is an important species for fisheries and is grown in aquaculture.

Diplodus vulgaris

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
Also called
common two-banded seabreamPBDB
Sits inside
DiplodusPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 3 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.0–6.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.3–5.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence15.98 Mya11.7 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

5 occurrences of Diplodus vulgaris 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

5 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

1 formation

Calcarenites of Sant Elm — 39.92°N, 3.06°E

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The named rock units Diplodus vulgaris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Diplodus vulgaris and its relatives

Miocene

Where Diplodus vulgaris and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

136 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Diplodus vulgaris, 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

4 references

Each of the 5 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. 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 content1

Picture of Diplodus vulgaris

Credit
Diego Delso
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Diplodus vulgaris was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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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What may have been alongside itDiplodus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Geoffroy St-Hillaire 1817)