Pagellus

Pagellus is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging the family Sparidae, which includes the seabreams and porgies. These fishes are found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and the western Indian Ocean.

Pagellus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SparinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Perciformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Perciformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Perciformes

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 129 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 45 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 45 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 45 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 45 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 45 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 20 of 45 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 45 occurrencesPleistocene — about 6 of 45 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–34 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 6 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 6 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 10 occurrences93.9 Mya774 ka103 Mya0 Mya

45 occurrences of Pagellus 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

45 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

13 formations

Lagos-Portimão — 37.08°N, 8.28°WLagos-Portimão — 37.12°N, 8.54°WLagos-Portimão — 37.08°N, 8.67°WLindos Bay — 36.09°N, 28.01°ELindos Bay — 36.36°N, 28.21°EHrušky — 48.81°N, 16.63°EAmeki — 5.00°N, 7.50°EAmeki — 5.56°N, 7.52°ECalcarenites of Sant Elm — 39.92°N, 3.06°ERaz-el-Ain — 35.71°N, 0.64°WEger — 47.90°N, 20.40°EBassevelde Sand — 51.08°N, 4.35°EWharekuri Greensand — 44.70°S, 170.43°ESant’Agata Fossili — 45.07°N, 7.94°EPiney Point — 37.61°N, 76.76°WArgille Azzurre — 43.31°N, 11.49°ESzurdokpüspöki — 47.93°N, 19.76°E

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The named rock units Pagellus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pagellus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pagellus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

790 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Pagellus, 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

31 references

Each of the 45 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. 19 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 Pagellus

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
Pagellus erythrinus · MCZ:Ich:56118

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 itSparinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cuvier and Valenciennes 1830