Pomacentridae

Pomacentridae is a family of ray-finned fish, comprising the damselfishes and clownfishes. This family were formerly placed in the order Perciformes or as indeterminate percomorphs, but are now considered basal blenniiforms. They are primarily marine, while a few species inhabit freshwater and brackish environments. They are noted for their hardy constitutions and territoriality. Many are brightly colored, so they are popular in aquaria.

Pomacentridae

(c) Susan Prior, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY 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
OvalentariaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 129 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 10 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 10 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 10 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences48.07 Mya774 ka57 Mya0 Mya

10 occurrences of Pomacentridae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

10 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

3 formations

Lindos Bay — 36.09°N, 28.01°ELindos Bay — 36.36°N, 28.21°ERaz-el-Ain — 35.71°N, 0.64°WTonasa — 5.05°S, 119.69°E

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The named rock units Pomacentridae 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.

Pomacentridae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Pomacentridae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

446 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Pomacentridae, 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

8 references

Each of the 10 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 Pomacentridae

Credit
(c) Susan Prior, some rights reserved (CC BY)
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pomacentridae 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

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 itOvalentaria through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bonaparte 1831