Cirrhitidae
Cirrhitidae, the hawkfishes, are a family of marine ray-finned fishes found in tropical seas and which are associated with coral reefs.
Service]. Photo by Bill Eichenlaub. · 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
- CirrhitioideiPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Cirrhitidae on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
2 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Cirrhitidae and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Cirrhitidae and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Acanthuridae2 sites
- Cetoscarus2 sites
- Diodontidae2 sites
- Hipposcarus2 sites
- Holocentridae2 sites
- Monotaxis2 sites
- Naso2 sites
- Ostraciidae2 sites
- Procellariidae2 sites
- Rattus exulans2 sites
- Scaridae2 sites
- Scarinae2 sites
- Scarus2 sites
- Serranidae2 sites
- Siganidae2 sites
- Sterninae2 sites
- Balistidae1 site
- Carangidae1 site
- cf. Variola sp.1 site
- Chelonioidea1 site
- Exocoetidae1 site
- Fregata1 site
- Gallus gallus1 site
- Kyphosidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cirrhitidae, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 Cirrhitidae
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Service]. Photo by Bill Eichenlaub.
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cirrhitidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Cirrhitidae”
- 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 itCirrhitioidei through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Macleay 1841