Haemulidae

Haemulidae is a family of fishes in the order Acanthuriformes known commonly as grunts. It is made up of the two subfamilies Haemulinae (grunts) and Plectorhynchinae (sweetlips), which contain about 133 species in 19 genera around the world. These fishes are commonly found in tropical, subtropical, and warm temperate regions, inhabiting marine, brackish, and sometimes fresh waters.

Haemulidae

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On record

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

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 154 occurrencesPaleocene — about 3 of 154 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 68 of 154 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 154 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 51 of 154 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 154 occurrencesPleistocene — about 6 of 154 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 6 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 11 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 11 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 11 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 11 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 5 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 12 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 13 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 12 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 7 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 15 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

154 occurrences of Haemulidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

154 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

44 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.80°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.84°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WCook Mountain — 30.64°N, 96.51°WCook Mountain — 30.61°N, 96.57°WCook Mountain — 31.33°N, 95.52°WCook Mountain — 32.03°N, 88.70°WWeches — 30.00°N, 97.15°WWeches — 28.96°N, 98.48°WWeches — 31.51°N, 94.35°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.04°WCantaure — 11.97°N, 70.02°WNanjemoy — 38.42°N, 77.00°WNanjemoy — 37.75°N, 77.33°WNanjemoy — 38.72°N, 76.93°WMoodys Branch — 31.90°N, 88.69°WMoodys Branch — 31.89°N, 88.39°WMiri — 4.87°N, 114.79°EMiri — 4.87°N, 114.86°EBashi — 32.36°N, 88.72°WBashi — 31.93°N, 87.87°WStone City — 30.53°N, 96.69°WStone City — 30.63°N, 96.54°WYazoo — 31.66°N, 92.90°WYazoo — 31.93°N, 91.94°WOnzole — 0.87°N, 79.89°WRaz-el-Ain — 35.71°N, 0.64°WElmore — 50.80°N, 1.21°WRosefield — 31.89°N, 92.00°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.51°WTashlik — 49.06°N, 31.90°EDonzacq Marl — 43.75°N, 0.84°WMission Valley — 32.92°N, 117.09°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°W“upper” Lisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WPiney Point — 37.61°N, 76.76°WSeria — 4.81°N, 114.67°EHatchetigbee — 31.65°N, 88.09°W

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The named rock units Haemulidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 46 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Haemulidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Haemulidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,789 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 90 sites for Haemulidae, 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

52 references

Each of the 154 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. 40 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 Haemulidae

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

No 3D scan of Haemulidae was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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. Gill 1885