Sebastes

Sebastes is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae part of the family Scorpaenidae, most of which have the common name of rockfish. A few are called ocean perch, sea perch or redfish instead. They are found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Sebastes

V. O'Connell, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Image ID: nur00516 · 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
ScorpaenidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Scorpaeniformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Scorpaeniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Scorpaeniformes

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 47 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 47 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 47 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 47 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 47 occurrencesPleistocene — about 27 of 47 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 34 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

47 occurrences of Sebastes on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

47 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

11 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°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WMonterey — 34.61°N, 120.44°WPort 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°ELondon Clay — 50.83°N, 0.78°WTsurushi — 38.01°N, 138.27°EWilson Grove — 38.34°N, 122.84°WNiguel — 33.64°N, 117.89°W

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The named rock units Sebastes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sebastes and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Sebastes and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,041 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Sebastes, 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

22 references

Each of the 47 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. 10 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 Sebastes

Credit
V. O'Connell, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Image ID: nur00516
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Sebastes peduncularis · LACM:Fish:8818.006

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 itScorpaenidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cuvier 1829