Percomorpha

Percomorpha is an extremely large and diverse clade of ray-finned fish.

Percomorpha

MathKnight · 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
AcanthopterygiiPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 60 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 13 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 13 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 13 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 13 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 5 of 13 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 13 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 13 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–30 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–8.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.4–6.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.6–1.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66 Mya5.333 Mya74 Mya1 Mya

13 occurrences of Percomorpha 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

13 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

5 formations

Tenejapa-Lacandon — 17.46°N, 92.04°WTenejapa-Lacandon — 17.41°N, 91.97°WSant’Agata Fossili — 45.07°N, 7.94°EPuerto Madryn — 42.78°S, 63.68°WAridal — 25.09°N, 13.89°WTalarn — 42.14°N, 1.04°E

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The named rock units Percomorpha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Percomorpha and its relatives

Miocene

Where Percomorpha and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

544 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Percomorpha, 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

10 references

Each of the 13 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 content1

Picture of Percomorpha

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

No 3D scan of Percomorpha was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAcanthopterygii through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.