Centropomidae

Centropomus is a genus of predominantly marine fish comprising the family Centropomidae. The type species is Centropomus undecimalis, the common snook. Commonly known as snooks or róbalos, the Centropomus species are native to tropical and subtropical waters of the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific Oceans.

Centropomidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CarangariaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 132 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 132 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 132 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 51 of 132 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 36 of 132 occurrencesPleistocene — about 33 of 132 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 5 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 6 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 5 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 7 occurrences10–8.1 Mya — about 7 occurrences8.1–6.0 Mya — about 8 occurrences6.0–4.0 Mya — about 20 occurrences4.0–2.0 Mya — about 28 occurrences2.0–0 Mya — about 32 occurrences56 Mya11.7 ka60 Mya0 Mya

132 occurrences of Centropomidae 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

132 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

30 formations

Koobi Fora — 4.30°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 4.24°N, 36.26°EKoobi Fora — 4.29°N, 36.23°EKoobi Fora — 3.77°N, 36.44°EKoobi Fora — 3.78°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 3.59°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.87°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 4.18°N, 36.42°ENkondo — 1.50°N, 31.00°EWarwire — 1.50°N, 31.00°ENyaburogo — 1.00°N, 30.50°EOluka — 1.00°N, 30.50°EBeglia — 34.00°N, 8.00°EBeglia — 34.33°N, 8.41°EBeglia — 34.20°N, 8.70°ENyakabingo — 1.00°N, 30.50°ENyabusosi — 1.00°N, 30.50°EWembere-Manonga — 3.88°S, 33.72°EWembere-Manonga — 3.92°S, 33.88°EWembere-Manonga — 3.90°S, 33.82°EWembere-Manonga — 3.98°S, 33.93°EGabal Silsila — 24.43°N, 32.95°EGabal Silsila — 24.77°N, 32.95°EKaiso Village — 1.50°N, 31.00°ENachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°ELusso Beds — 0.03°N, 29.62°EDam — 25.98°N, 49.39°EBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WBahía Inglesa — 27.17°S, 70.87°WMuluk — 30.42°N, 30.25°EFleming — 31.00°N, 93.40°WTamiami — 27.37°N, 82.45°WNawata — 2.90°N, 36.05°ENawata or Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EAlachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WIdam Unit — 25.71°N, 18.18°EStudienka — 48.20°N, 17.98°E

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The named rock units Centropomidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Centropomidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Centropomidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,508 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 128 sites for Centropomidae, 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

60 references

Each of the 132 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. 48 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 Centropomidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Centropomidae 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

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. Poey 1868