Gadidae

The Gadidae are a family of marine fish, included in the order Gadiformes, known as the cods, codfishes, or true cods. It contains several commercially important fishes, including the cod, haddock, whiting, and pollock.

Gadidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GadoideiPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Gadiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Gadiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gadiformes

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 303 occurrencesPaleocene — about 5 of 303 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 16 of 303 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 59 of 303 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 111 of 303 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 39 of 303 occurrencesPleistocene — about 65 of 303 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 3 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 3 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 15 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 15 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 14 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 7 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 7 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 7 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 12 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 15 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 13 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 21 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 15 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 15 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 23 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 32 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 67 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

303 occurrences of Gadidae 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

303 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

51 formations

Boom Clay — 51.16°N, 4.13°EBoom Clay — 51.13°N, 4.26°EBoom Clay — 51.09°N, 4.40°EBoom Clay — 51.19°N, 4.32°ELindos Bay — 36.09°N, 28.01°ELindos Bay — 36.26°N, 28.17°ELindos Bay — 36.36°N, 28.21°EHrušky — 48.81°N, 16.63°EYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WSant’Agata Fossili — 45.07°N, 7.94°ESant’Agata Fossili — 45.07°N, 7.97°EOosterhout — 51.70°N, 5.73°ERaz-el-Ain — 35.71°N, 0.64°WBassevelde Sand — 51.08°N, 4.35°EBerchem — 51.20°N, 4.44°EMount Harris — 44.48°S, 170.90°EMount Harris — 45.21°S, 170.88°EMount Harris — 45.03°S, 171.02°EPort Orford — 42.81°N, 124.53°WEarnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°WElmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WCromer Forest Bed — 52.88°N, 1.44°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.92°N, 1.34°EAlzey — 49.83°N, 7.72°ELellinge Greensand — 55.63°N, 12.62°ELellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°EPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.90°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.75°N, 118.29°WRifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°ERifle Butts Siltstone — 45.14°S, 170.93°ELeitha — 47.80°N, 16.63°EStudienka — 48.44°N, 17.16°ETimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WLondon Clay — 50.83°N, 0.78°W

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The named rock units Gadidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 175 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gadidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Gadidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,215 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 206 sites for Gadidae, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

95 references

Each of the 303 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. 83 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 Gadidae

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

No 3D scan of Gadidae 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

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. Rafinesque 1810