Euthynnus

Euthynnus is a genus of ray-finned bony fish in the family Scombridae, or mackerel family, and in the tribe Thunnini, more commonly known as the tunas. Species in the genus Euthynnus are also known as "little tunas," and are found in subtropical oceans worldwide. They are known for their dark red meat and strong taste compared to larger tunas.

Euthynnus

Uncredited · Public Domain · 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
ScombridaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 6.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Miocene — about 3 of 3 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.6–7.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.2–6.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.8–6.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.4–6.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.0–5.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.6–5.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13.82 Mya7.246 Mya16.5 Mya4.8 Mya

3 occurrences of Euthynnus on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

3 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

Rosarito Beach — 32.12°N, 116.80°W

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The named rock units Euthynnus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Euthynnus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Euthynnus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

160 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Euthynnus, 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

3 references

Each of the 3 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 content2

Picture of Euthynnus

Credit
nobody named on the record
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 itScombridae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jordan and Gilbert 1882