Sander

Sander is a genus of predatory ray-finned fish in the family Percidae, which also includes the perches, ruffes, and darters. They are also known as "pike-perch" because of their resemblance to fish in the unrelated Esocidae (pike) family. They are the only genus in the monotypic tribe Luciopercini, which is one of two tribes in the subfamily Luciopercinae.

Sander

Timothy Knepp · 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
PercidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Perciformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Perciformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Perciformes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Percidae

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 12.8 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 14 of 22 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 22 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 22 occurrencesPleistocene13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences9.8–9.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences8.9–8.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences8.4–8.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences8.0–7.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.5–7.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.1–6.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.7–6.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences6.2–5.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences5.8–5.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.0–3.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.5–3.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.1–2.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences887 ka–443 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences443 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences11.63 Mya11.7 ka13.3 Mya0 Mya

22 occurrences of Sander 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

22 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

Khapry — 47.24°N, 39.71°EReuver clay — 50.90°N, 6.45°EVolhyn Beds — 50.70°N, 27.00°E

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The named rock units Sander has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sander and its relatives

Miocene

Where Sander and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

244 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Sander, 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 22 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 Sander

Credit
Timothy Knepp
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sander 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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What may have been alongside itPercidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Oken 1817