Engraulis

Engraulis is a genus of anchovies, currently containing 9 species. Species in this genus are found in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, as well as the Mediterranean Sea, and several of them are commercially important.

Engraulis

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 38 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 38 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 38 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 11 of 38 occurrencesPleistocene — about 22 of 38 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.0–7.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.7–6.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.4–5.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences5.1–3.8 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 20 occurrences33.9 Mya11.7 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

38 occurrences of Engraulis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

38 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

9 formations

Palos 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°EGutingkeng — 22.84°N, 120.41°EGutingkeng — 23.00°N, 120.42°EYokosuka — 35.26°N, 139.72°EOtuma — 13.87°S, 76.27°WGatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WSan Pedro — 33.75°N, 118.29°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WTokyo — 35.75°N, 139.73°E

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The named rock units Engraulis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Engraulis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Engraulis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

844 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Engraulis, 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

20 references

Each of the 38 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. 8 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 Engraulis

Credit
nobody named on the record
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
Engraulis japonicus · JFBM:Fishes:48201

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 itEngraulidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cuvier 1817