Moridae

The Moridae are a family of cod-like fishes, known as codlings, hakelings, and moras.

Moridae

W. S. Haines · 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
GadoideiPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Gadiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Gadiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gadiformes

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 52 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 12 of 149 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 16 of 149 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 87 of 149 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 11 of 149 occurrencesPleistocene — about 23 of 149 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–48 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 7 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 7 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 10 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 18 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 24 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 9 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 5 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–8.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.8–7.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.1–5.3 Mya — about 8 occurrences5.3–3.5 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.5–1.8 Mya — about 14 occurrences1.8–0 Mya — about 13 occurrences48.9 Mya129 ka53 Mya0 Mya

149 occurrences of Moridae 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

149 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

29 formations

Mount 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°ESouthburn Sand — 44.42°S, 170.89°ESouthburn Sand — 44.30°S, 171.00°ERifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°ERifle Butts — 45.13°S, 170.97°EMakaretu Mudstone — 39.97°S, 176.50°ERifle Butts Siltstone — 45.14°S, 170.93°EPakaurangi — 36.24°S, 174.28°ESlip Point Siltstone — 46.03°S, 167.71°EZuramakent horizon — 43.66°N, 43.89°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.85°S, 170.52°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.66°S, 170.65°EWaihao Greensand — 44.80°S, 170.98°EWaihao Greensand — 44.40°S, 171.04°EWaioha Shellbeds — 34.50°S, 172.96°EHrušky — 48.81°N, 16.63°EValmonte — 33.78°N, 118.33°WMenelite — 49.93°N, 22.02°ELa Meseta — 64.23°S, 56.65°Wfacies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°ELindos Bay — 36.36°N, 28.21°EBlanch Point — 35.25°S, 138.46°EHukatere Sandstone — 36.23°S, 174.29°EWaitoura Marl — 44.78°S, 170.57°EOtekaeike Limestone — 44.81°S, 170.53°ECalamity Point Sandstone — 46.03°S, 167.71°EFouraye Siltstone — 46.03°S, 167.71°EChatton — 46.11°S, 168.80°E

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The named rock units Moridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 83 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Moridae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Moridae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,291 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 111 sites for Moridae, 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

34 references

Each of the 149 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. 22 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 Moridae

Credit
W. S. Haines
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Moridae 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

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.