Merluccius

Merluccius is a genus of merluccid hakes from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, where mainly found relatively deep.

Merluccius

NOAA Photo Library · 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
MerlucciidaePBDB
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 143.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 81 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 81 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 81 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 5 of 81 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 81 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 12 of 81 occurrencesMiocene — about 33 of 81 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 14 of 81 occurrencesPleistocene — about 14 of 81 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 4 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 6 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 7 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 11 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 16 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 26 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka146 Mya0 Mya

81 occurrences of Merluccius 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

81 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

24 formations

Yorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WPalos Verdes Sand — 34.00°N, 118.20°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.75°N, 118.29°WLellinge Greensand — 55.63°N, 12.62°ELellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°ECalvert — 38.16°N, 76.83°WHrušky — 48.81°N, 16.63°EPort Orford — 42.81°N, 124.53°WPort Campbell Limestone — 37.72°S, 141.93°EJan Juc — 38.33°S, 144.30°EOnzole — 0.87°N, 79.89°WChoptank — 38.16°N, 76.83°WSt. Marys — 38.16°N, 76.83°WEger — 47.90°N, 20.40°EWilson Grove — 38.34°N, 122.84°WRifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°EBerchem — 51.20°N, 4.44°EAgatdal — 70.58°N, 53.10°WZdanice-Hustopece — 49.13°N, 16.86°ESant’Agata Fossili — 45.07°N, 7.94°ETimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WArgille Azzurre — 43.31°N, 11.49°EHorcón — 32.70°S, 71.46°WNiguel — 33.64°N, 117.89°WAalter — 51.19°N, 3.31°ECubagua — 10.57°N, 64.24°W

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The named rock units Merluccius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 49 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Merluccius and its relatives

Miocene

Where Merluccius and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,250 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 74 sites for Merluccius, 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

49 references

Each of the 81 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. 37 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 content3

Picture of Merluccius

Credit
NOAA Photo Library
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Merluccius senegalensis · CAS:ICH:235494

3D model

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

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