Triglidae

Triglidae, commonly known as gurnards or sea robins, are a family of bottom-feeding scorpaenoid ray-finned fish. The gurnards are distributed in temperate and tropical seas worldwide.

Triglidae

Daiju Azuma · CC BY-SA 2.5 · 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
sea robinPBDB
Sits inside
ScorpaeniformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Scorpaeniformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Scorpaeniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Scorpaeniformes

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 5 of 92 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 25 of 92 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 37 of 92 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 92 occurrencesPleistocene — about 20 of 92 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 4 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 4 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 4 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 5 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 6 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 18 occurrences41.03 Mya129 ka49 Mya0 Mya

92 occurrences of Triglidae 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

92 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

23 formations

Boom Clay — 51.13°N, 4.26°EBoom Clay — 51.09°N, 4.40°EBoom Clay — 51.19°N, 4.32°EPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.75°N, 118.29°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WStudienka — 48.20°N, 17.98°EAlzey — 49.83°N, 7.72°EMount Harris — 44.30°S, 170.99°EMount Harris — 44.82°S, 170.88°EBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.51°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WPisco — 14.56°S, 75.67°WTalbot — 38.07°N, 76.36°WKempsville — 36.79°N, 76.17°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WRaz-el-Ain — 35.71°N, 0.64°WMenilite — 49.20°N, 17.20°EBassevelde Sand — 51.08°N, 4.35°EWaccamaw — 33.10°N, 80.31°WMission Valley — 32.92°N, 117.09°WSant’Agata Fossili — 45.07°N, 7.94°EMiyata — 35.19°N, 39.65°ECook Mountain — 31.33°N, 95.52°WYokosuka — 35.26°N, 139.72°EGaindorf — 48.49°N, 15.72°E

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The named rock units Triglidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 55 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Triglidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Triglidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,589 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 68 sites for Triglidae, 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

45 references

Each of the 92 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. 33 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 Triglidae

Credit
Daiju Azuma
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Triglidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.