Scorpaeniformes

Scorpaeniformes

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TeleosteiPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 218 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 17 of 218 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 40 of 218 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 84 of 218 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 14 of 218 occurrencesPleistocene — about 54 of 218 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 9 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 9 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 9 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 5 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 5 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 8 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 9 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 8 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 10 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 9 occurrences10–8.4 Mya — about 10 occurrences8.4–6.3 Mya — about 14 occurrences6.3–4.2 Mya — about 14 occurrences4.2–2.1 Mya — about 10 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 60 occurrences59.24 Mya11.7 ka63 Mya0 Mya

218 occurrences of Scorpaeniformes 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

218 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

51 formations

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.90°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.75°N, 118.29°WBoom Clay — 51.13°N, 4.26°EBoom Clay — 51.09°N, 4.40°EBoom Clay — 51.19°N, 4.32°EMonterey — 34.61°N, 120.44°WMonterey — 33.79°N, 117.81°WModelo — 34.13°N, 118.48°WModelo — 34.14°N, 118.44°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WAlzey — 49.83°N, 7.72°ERaz-el-Ain — 35.71°N, 0.64°WMount Harris — 45.21°S, 170.88°EMount Harris — 44.30°S, 170.99°EMount Harris — 44.82°S, 170.88°EPort Orford — 42.83°N, 124.56°WPort Orford — 42.82°N, 124.54°WElk River — 42.81°N, 124.81°WSan Pedro — 33.75°N, 118.29°WPort Campbell Limestone — 37.72°S, 141.93°EYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WStudienka — 48.20°N, 17.98°EBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WBassevelde Sand — 51.08°N, 4.35°EPakaurangi — 36.24°S, 174.28°ENavidad — 33.94°S, 71.85°WSant’Agata Fossili — 45.07°N, 7.94°EBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WLondon Clay — 50.83°N, 0.78°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.51°WTsurushi — 38.01°N, 138.27°EAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°W

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The named rock units Scorpaeniformes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 103 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scorpaeniformes and its relatives

Miocene

Where Scorpaeniformes and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,276 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 136 sites for Scorpaeniformes, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

90 references

Each of the 218 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. 78 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 content2

Picture of Scorpaeniformes

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access was 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.