Boops

Boops is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sparidae, the seabreams and porgies. There are two species in this genus, one in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, and the other in the Western Indian Ocean.

Boops

riblje-oko.hr · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
SparidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Perciformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Perciformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Perciformes

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 12.8 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 10 of 18 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 18 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 18 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–8.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.9–7.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.8–6.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.7–5.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.6–4.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.5–3.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.4–2.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12.8 Mya2.58 Mya34.5 Mya1.2 Mya

18 occurrences of Boops on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

18 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

2 formations

Hrušky — 48.81°N, 16.63°ERaz-el-Ain — 35.71°N, 0.64°W

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The named rock units Boops has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Boops and its relatives

Miocene

Where Boops and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

369 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Boops, 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

11 references

Each of the 18 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 content2

Picture of Boops

Credit
riblje-oko.hr
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Notropis boops · JFBM:Fishes:45492

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itSparidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cuvier 1814