Umbrina

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SciaenidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At least 22 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.
22 occurrences of Umbrina 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
22 occurrences- Oligocene20%
- Miocene66%
- Plioceneunder 1%
- Pleistocene14%
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
5 formations
- Gatun Formation5
- Palos Verdes Sand Formation3
- Hrušky Formation2
- Rosefield Formation · Vicksburg Group1
- Berchem Formation1
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The named rock units Umbrina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Umbrina and its relatives
MioceneWhere Umbrina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
880 taxa- Gobius6 sites
- Gobiidae5 sites
- Carcharhinus4 sites
- Gobiidarum4 sites
- Isurus oxyrinchus4 sites
- Raja4 sites
- Trachinus4 sites
- Aetobatus arcuatus3 sites
- Atherinopsis californiensis3 sites
- Carcharodon carcharias3 sites
- Cepola rubescens3 sites
- Chilara taylori3 sites
- Citharichthys3 sites
- Cymatogaster aggregata3 sites
- Dasyatis3 sites
- Dentex3 sites
- Engraulis mordax3 sites
- Galeocerdo aduncus3 sites
- Galeorhinus galeus3 sites
- Genyonemus lineatus3 sites
- Lepidogobius lepidus3 sites
- Lesueurigobius3 sites
- Morone3 sites
- Myliobatis californica3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Umbrina, 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
15 references- Bathymetric distribution of Miocene to Pleistocene Caribbean teleostean fishes from the coast of Panama and Costa Rica4
- Das Sternberger Gestein un seine Artenzahl - Stand 19943
- Fossil marine fishes and the ʻLago Mareʼ event: Has the Mediterranean ever transformed into a brackish lake?2
- Fish otoliths from the Middle Miocene of Kienberg at Mikulov, Czech REpublic, Vienna Basin: Their paleoenvironmental and paleogeographic significance2
- Een vroeg-miocene fauna uit het Zand van Kiel (Formatie van Berchem) bij Post X in Berchem (Antwerpen)1
- Late Miocene fish otoliths from the Colombacci Formation (Northern Apennines, Italy): Implications for the Messinian ‘Lago-mare’ event1
- Otolithes de poissons du paléocanyon de saubrigues (chattien à langhien), aquitaine méridionale, France1
- Biostratigraphy and Paleoecology of Diagnostic Invertebrates and Vertebrates from the Type Locality of the Oligocene Rosefiled Marl Beds, Louisiana1
- Preliminary List of the Marine Fishes and Other Vertebrate Remains from the Late Pleistocene Palos Verdes Sand Formation at Costa Mesa, Orange County, California1
- A marine ichthyofauna from the Miocene of Panama, and the Tertiary Caribbean faunal province1
- Les otholites de téléostéens des Marnes de Saubrigues (Miocène d'Aquitaine Méridionale, France)1
- Les otolithes des téléostéens de l'oligo-miocène Belge1
Each of the 22 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. 3 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 Umbrina
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Umbrina 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSciaenidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cuvier 1817