Scomber colias

Atlantic chub mackerel, also known as tinker mackerel, is a pelagic schooling species of mackerel found in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Black Sea. It was originally thought to be a subspecies of the chub mackerel, Scomber japonicus.

Scomber colias

Etrusko25 · 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
ScomberPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At most 2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 7.246 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 5 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences7.3–7.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.2–7.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.1–7.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.0–6.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.9–6.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.8–6.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.7–6.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.6–6.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.5–6.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.4–6.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.3–6.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.2–6.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.1–6.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.0–5.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.9–5.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.8–5.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.7–5.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.6–5.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.5–5.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.75 Mya4.83 Mya

5 occurrences of Scomber colias 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

5 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

1 formation

Raz-el-Ain — 35.71°N, 0.64°W

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The named rock units Scomber colias has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scomber colias and its relatives

Miocene

Where Scomber colias and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

161 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Scomber colias, 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

3 references

Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Scomber colias

Credit
Etrusko25
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Scomber colias 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 itScomber through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gmelin 1789