Haemulon

Haemulon is a genus of fish in the grunt family known as the scaled-fin grunts. Most are found in the western Atlantic Ocean, with a few species known from the eastern Pacific Ocean. This genus is considered to be one of the most important fish groups of the coral reefs of Brazil due to its commercial value and crucial ecological role.

Haemulon

Brian Gratwicke · CC BY 2.0 · 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
Sits inside
HaemulinaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 32 occurrencesEocene — about 16 of 32 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 32 occurrencesMiocene — about 6 of 32 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 32 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 32 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.8–1.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

32 occurrences of Haemulon 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

32 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

16 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.80°WGatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WCantaure — 11.97°N, 70.02°WDonzacq Marl — 43.75°N, 0.84°WNanjemoy — 38.42°N, 77.00°WNanjemoy — 37.75°N, 77.33°WMoodys Branch — 31.90°N, 88.69°WMoodys Branch — 31.89°N, 88.39°WBashi — 32.36°N, 88.72°WBashi — 31.93°N, 87.87°WOnzole — 0.87°N, 79.89°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.51°WUrumaco — 11.25°N, 70.27°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WMiretrain Marl — 43.56°N, 1.11°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.04°WCook Mountain — 30.61°N, 96.57°W“upper” Lisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WPiney Point — 37.61°N, 76.76°WHatchetigbee — 31.65°N, 88.09°W

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The named rock units Haemulon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Haemulon and its relatives

Eocene

Where Haemulon and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

522 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Haemulon, 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

12 references

Each of the 32 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. 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 Haemulon

Credit
Brian Gratwicke
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Haemulon was found in Sketchfab.

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 itHaemulinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cuvier 1829