Gadiformes

Gadiformes, also called the Anacanthini, are an order of ray-finned fish that include the cod, hakes, pollock, haddock, burbot, rocklings and moras, many of which are food fish of major commercial value. They are mostly marine fish found throughout the world and the vast majority are found in temperate or colder regions while a few species may enter brackish estuaries. Pacific tomcods, one of the two species that makes up the genus Microgadus, are able to enter freshwater, but there is no evidence that they breed there. Some populations of landlocked Atlantic tomcod on the other hand, complete their entire life cycle in freshwater. Yet only one species, the burbot, is a true freshwater fish.

Gadiformes

Patrick Gijsbers · 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
ParacanthopterygiiPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
nektonicPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 1289 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 1289 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 1289 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 37 of 1289 occurrencesEocene — about 147 of 1289 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 183 of 1289 occurrencesMiocene — about 604 of 1289 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 150 of 1289 occurrencesPleistocene — about 152 of 1289 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 3 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 31 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 9 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 20 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 33 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 44 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 42 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 72 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 87 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 105 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 232 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 140 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 178 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 290 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka146 Mya0 Mya

1,289 occurrences of Gadiformes 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

1,289 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

148 formations

Mount Harris — 44.20°S, 170.71°EMount Harris — 44.48°S, 170.90°EMount Harris — 45.21°S, 170.88°EMount Harris — 45.14°S, 170.94°EMount Harris — 45.13°S, 170.96°EMount Harris — 44.30°S, 170.99°EMount Harris — 44.41°S, 171.06°EMount Harris — 44.49°S, 171.01°EMount Harris — 44.82°S, 170.88°EMount Harris — 45.03°S, 171.02°EMount Harris — 44.83°S, 170.97°EBoom Clay — 51.16°N, 4.13°EBoom Clay — 51.13°N, 4.26°EBoom Clay — 51.09°N, 4.40°EBoom Clay — 51.19°N, 4.32°ENavidad — 33.95°S, 71.87°WNavidad — 33.89°S, 71.83°WRifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°ERifle Butts — 45.08°S, 170.95°ERifle Butts Siltstone — 45.14°S, 170.93°EGutingkeng — 23.04°N, 120.43°EGutingkeng — 22.84°N, 120.41°EHrušky — 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°EBells Creek Mudstone — 41.34°S, 175.46°ESant’Agata Fossili — 45.07°N, 7.94°ESant’Agata Fossili — 45.07°N, 7.97°ESouthburn Sand — 44.42°S, 170.89°ESouthburn Sand — 44.30°S, 171.00°ELellinge Greensand — 55.63°N, 12.62°ELellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°EWaioha Shellbeds — 34.50°S, 172.96°ELondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELondon Clay — 50.83°N, 0.78°WLondon Clay — 51.85°N, 1.27°ELondon Clay — 51.51°N, 0.24°ELondon Clay — 51.37°N, 1.13°ELondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WWaihao Greensand — 44.80°S, 170.98°EWaihao Greensand — 44.40°S, 171.04°EPakaurangi — 36.24°S, 174.28°ELacui — 41.75°S, 73.84°WLacui — 42.69°S, 74.12°WBassevelde Sand — 51.08°N, 4.35°EMiretrain Marl — 43.56°N, 1.11°WArgille Azzurre — 43.31°N, 11.49°EPalos Verdes Sand — 34.00°N, 118.20°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°WRaz-el-Ain — 35.71°N, 0.64°WEger — 47.92°N, 20.37°E

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The named rock units Gadiformes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 124 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 698 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gadiformes and its relatives

Miocene

Where Gadiformes and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

4,517 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 525 sites for Gadiformes, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

200 references

Each of the 1,289 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. 188 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 content1

Picture of Gadiformes

Credit
Patrick Gijsbers
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Gadiformes was found in Sketchfab.

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

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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. Goodrich 1909