Bairdiella
Bairdiella is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers. These fishes are found in the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific Ocean.
NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC. · 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
- PerciformesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Perciformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Perciformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Perciformes
Time the record covers
At least 7.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.
6 occurrences of Bairdiella 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
6 occurrences- Miocene17%
- Pliocene17%
- Pleistocene67%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Bairdiella 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.
Bairdiella and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Bairdiella and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
336 taxa- Carcharhinus4 sites
- Lepisosteus4 sites
- Aetobatus narinari3 sites
- Alligator mississippiensis3 sites
- Archosargus probatocephalus3 sites
- Bothidae3 sites
- Carcharhinus leucas3 sites
- Carcharias taurus3 sites
- Carcharodon carcharias3 sites
- Clupeidae3 sites
- Cynoscion3 sites
- Dasyatis3 sites
- Dasypus bellus3 sites
- Elops3 sites
- Equus3 sites
- Fundulus3 sites
- Galeocerdo cuvier3 sites
- Ginglymostoma cirratum3 sites
- Isurus oxyrinchus3 sites
- Kinosternon3 sites
- Mugil3 sites
- Myliobatis3 sites
- Negaprion brevirostris3 sites
- Paramylodon harlani3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Bairdiella, 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
5 references- Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes from the early Pleistocene Leisey Shell Pit local fauna, Hillsborough County, Florida2
- Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) vertebrate faunas from coastal Georgia1
- Integrated taphonomy of an avian death assemblage in marine sediments from the late Pliocene of Florida1
- A marine ichthyofauna from the Miocene of Panama, and the Tertiary Caribbean faunal province1
- Fish remains, mostly otoliths and teeth, from the Palos Verdes Sand (Late Pleistocene) of California1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Bairdiella
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC.
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Bairdiella 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Bairdiella”
- 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 itPerciformes through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gill 1861