Sebastes serranoides
Sebastes serranoides, the olive rockfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae, the rockfishes, part of the family Scorpaenidae. It is found in the Eastern Pacific.

CMB Photography Group, Coastal Marine Biolabs · Copyrighted free use · 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- Also called
- olive rockfishPBDB
- Sits inside
- SebastesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Scorpaeniformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Scorpaeniformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Scorpaeniformes
Time the record covers
At most 645 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 774 ka and 129 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Sebastes serranoides on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
2 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
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The named rock units Sebastes serranoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Sebastes serranoides and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Sebastes serranoides and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
63 taxa- Ammodytes hexapterus2 sites
- Glyptocephalus zachirus2 sites
- Microgadus proximus2 sites
- Acipenser medirostris1 site
- Allosmerus elongatus1 site
- Amphistichus rhodoterus1 site
- Anarrhichthys ocellatus1 site
- Anas crecca1 site
- Atheresthes stomias1 site
- Beringraja binoculata1 site
- Bucephala albeola1 site
- Bucephala clangula1 site
- Chendytes1 site
- Citharichthys sordidus1 site
- Citharichthys stigmaeus1 site
- Clupea pallasii1 site
- Cottidae1 site
- Cryptacanthodes aleutensis1 site
- Cymatogaster aggregata1 site
- Diaphus theta1 site
- Elasmobranchii1 site
- Embiotocidae1 site
- Engraulis mordax1 site
- Enhydra1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Sebastes serranoides, 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
2 references- The Marine Fish Fauna of the Middle Pleistocene Port Orford Formation1
- Fish remains, mostly otoliths and teeth, from the Palos Verdes Sand (Late Pleistocene) of California1
Each of the 2 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 Sebastes serranoides
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- CMB Photography Group, Coastal Marine Biolabs
- Licence
- Copyrighted free use
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Sebastes serranoides 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSebastes through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Eigenmann and Eigenmann 1890)