Kyphosidae
The sea chubs, also known as rudderfish and pilot fish and in Hawaiian as enenue or nenue, are a family, Kyphosidae, of fishes in the order Centrarchiformes native to the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans usually close to shore in marine waters.
Dr. Dwayne Meadows, NOAA/NMFS/OPR · Public Domain · 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
- TerapontoideiPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Kyphosidae on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
1 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Kyphosidae and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Kyphosidae and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Acanthuridae1 site
- Cetoscarus1 site
- Cirrhitidae1 site
- Diodontidae1 site
- Hipposcarus1 site
- Holocentridae1 site
- Labridae1 site
- Lutjanidae1 site
- Monotaxis1 site
- Naso1 site
- Ostraciidae1 site
- Procellariidae1 site
- Puffinus1 site
- Rattus exulans1 site
- Scaridae1 site
- Scarinae1 site
- Scarus1 site
- Serranidae1 site
- Siganidae1 site
- Sterninae1 site
- Sus scrofa1 site
- Tetraodontidae1 site
- Thalassoma1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Kyphosidae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Kyphosidae
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Dr. Dwayne Meadows, NOAA/NMFS/OPR
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Sea chub”
- 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 itTerapontoidei through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jordan 1887