Abramis sp.
The common bream, also known as the freshwater bream, bream, bronze bream, carp bream or sweaty bream, is a European species of freshwater fish in the family Leuciscidae. It is now considered to be the only species in the genus Abramis.

Микова Наталия · 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.
Time the record covers
At least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 129 ka.
6 occurrences of Abramis sp. on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
6 occurrences- Miocene49%
- Pliocene18%
- Pleistocene33%
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
2 formations
- Brackwater Molasse Formation · Molasse Group1
- Cromer Forest Bed Formation1
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The named rock units Abramis sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Abramis sp. and its relatives
MioceneWhere Abramis sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
238 taxa- Rutilus4 sites
- Aves3 sites
- Testudo3 sites
- Tinca3 sites
- Abramis brama2 sites
- Acipenser2 sites
- Apodemus sylvaticus2 sites
- Cervidae2 sites
- Crocuta crocuta2 sites
- Equus2 sites
- Esox lucius2 sites
- Hipparion2 sites
- Leuciscus2 sites
- Megaloceros2 sites
- Microtus2 sites
- Microtus arvalis2 sites
- Microtus oeconomus2 sites
- Mimomys2 sites
- Mustelidae2 sites
- Myodes2 sites
- Natrix natrix2 sites
- Perca fluviatilis2 sites
- Rana2 sites
- Rutilus robustus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Abramis sp., 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
6 references- Vertebrates from the Pontian of the Shkodova Gora Locality (Northwestern Black Sea Region, Upper Miocene)1
- Early Pliocene Bear Ursus thibetanus (Mammalia, Carnivora) from Priozernoe Locality in the Dniester Basin (Moldova Republic)1
- The First Representative Vertebrate Fauna from the Late Miocene of Southern European Russia1
- Stratigraphy and mammal faunas of the Brackwassermolasse in the surroundings of Ulm (Southwest Germany)1
- The Early Middle Pleistocene vertebrate fauna from Little Oakley, Essex1
- The Vertebrata of the Forest Bed Series of Norfolk and Suffolk1
Each of the 6 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 Abramis sp.
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Микова Наталия
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Abramis sp. was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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.