Clupeoidei
Searched as Clupeoidei indet.. The Paleobiology Database treats Clupeoidei as the accepted name.
Clupeoidei is a suborder of marine and freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Clupeiformes, an order which includes the herrings, anchovies and shads.

No machine-readable author provided. Uwe kils assumed (based on copyright claims). · 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- Also called
- herringPBDB
- Sits inside
- ClupeiformesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Clupeiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Clupeiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Clupeiformes
Time the record covers
At least 3.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 774 ka.
2 occurrences of Clupeoidei on record. 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
2 occurrences- Miocene50%
- Pleistocene50%
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
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The named rock units Clupeoidei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
4,462 taxa- Clupeidae40 sites
- Maurolicus muelleri37 sites
- Bregmaceros albyi30 sites
- Gobius22 sites
- Syngnathus albyi20 sites
- Trachurus20 sites
- Lesueurigobius19 sites
- Diaphus18 sites
- Spratelloides gracilis18 sites
- Lepidopus17 sites
- Lampanyctus15 sites
- Merluccius14 sites
- Alosa13 sites
- Clupeidarum13 sites
- Deltentosteus13 sites
- Dentex13 sites
- Gadiculus argenteus13 sites
- Lobianchia dofleini13 sites
- Myctophum13 sites
- Myctophum dorsale13 sites
- Sardina13 sites
- Syngnathus13 sites
- Alosa elongata12 sites
- Cepola12 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 315 sites for Clupeoidei, and this reads 240 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
2 references- Lithostratigraphy and Biostratigraphy of Pliocene and Pleistocene Marine Deposits and Age of the highest Marine Terrace from the Sacaco Basin and its Environs (southern Peru)1
- Fossil Fishes of the Miocene (Monterey) Formations1
Each 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Clupeoidei
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- No machine-readable author provided. Uwe kils assumed (based on copyright claims).
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Clupeoidei 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, “Clupeoidei”
- 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 itClupeiformes through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bleeker 1859)