Gadus

Gadus is a genus of demersal fish in the family Gadidae, commonly known as cod, although there are additional cod species in other genera. The best known member of the genus is the Atlantic cod.

Gadus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
codPBDB
Sits inside
GadidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Gadiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Gadiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gadiformes

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 43 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 43 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 43 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 16 of 43 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 43 occurrencesPleistocene — about 17 of 43 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 3 occurrences10–8.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences8.4–6.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.3–4.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.2–2.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.1–0 Mya — about 21 occurrences59.24 Mya11.7 ka63 Mya0 Mya

43 occurrences of Gadus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

43 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

13 formations

Cromer Forest Bed — 52.88°N, 1.44°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.92°N, 1.34°ESant’Agata Fossili — 45.07°N, 7.94°ESant’Agata Fossili — 45.07°N, 7.97°EBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WForest Bed — 52.85°N, 1.47°EKempsville — 36.79°N, 76.17°WRifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°EPort Orford — 42.82°N, 124.54°WMiyata — 35.19°N, 39.65°ETimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.75°N, 118.29°WHeers — 50.10°N, 5.00°E

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The named rock units Gadus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gadus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Gadus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,397 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Gadus, 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

27 references

Each of the 43 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. 15 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 content2

Picture of Gadus

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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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What may have been alongside itGadidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758