Sciaena

Sciaena

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
SciaenidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Eocene — about 36 of 64 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 17 of 64 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 11 of 64 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 64 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 7 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 10 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 7 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 3 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences10–8.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.9–7.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.4–6.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.0–4.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41.03 Mya11.63 Mya48.9 Mya4.5 Mya

64 occurrences of Sciaena on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

64 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

19 formations

Cook Mountain — 30.61°N, 96.57°WCook Mountain — 31.33°N, 95.52°WCook Mountain — 32.03°N, 88.70°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.90°N, 88.69°WMoodys Branch — 31.89°N, 88.39°W“upper” Lisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WByram Marl — 32.18°N, 90.24°WByram Marl — 32.32°N, 90.88°WByram Marl — 32.34°N, 90.85°WAmeki — 5.00°N, 7.50°EAmeki — 5.56°N, 7.52°EHrušky — 48.81°N, 16.63°ECatahoula — 31.66°N, 88.66°WPiney Point — 37.61°N, 76.76°WGram — 55.31°N, 9.06°EYazoo — 31.66°N, 92.90°WMint Spring — 32.34°N, 90.85°WGlendon — 32.27°N, 90.01°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WCantaure — 11.97°N, 70.02°WTörökbálint — 47.63°N, 18.71°EEger — 47.90°N, 20.40°EWeches — 31.22°N, 96.04°WKosciusko — 32.02°N, 88.71°WByram — 31.57°N, 88.04°W

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The named rock units Sciaena has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sciaena and its relatives

Eocene

Where Sciaena and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

749 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Sciaena, 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

21 references

Each of the 64 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. 9 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 Sciaena

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Sciaena 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.

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. Linnaeus 1758