Pennahia
Pennahia is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers. The fishes in this genus are found in the Indo-West Pacific region.

George Henry Ford · 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
- PerciformesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Perciformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Perciformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Perciformes
Time the record covers
At least 645 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 1.8 Mya to 11.7 ka.
3 occurrences of Pennahia 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
3 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Pennahia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pennahia and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Pennahia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
91 taxa- Nibea3 sites
- Apogonidae2 sites
- Atrobucca2 sites
- Pterothrissus gissu2 sites
- Sillago2 sites
- Sirembo2 sites
- Acropoma1 site
- Aetobatus1 site
- Albula1 site
- Alethinophidia1 site
- Amblychaeturichthys hexanema1 site
- Amblychaeturichthys sciistius1 site
- Ammodytes1 site
- Argentina1 site
- Ariidae1 site
- Ariosoma1 site
- Arothron sp.1 site
- Bandicota indica1 site
- Benthosema pterotum1 site
- Carcharhinus1 site
- Carcharhinus altimus1 site
- Carcharhinus amboinensis1 site
- Carcharhinus leucas1 site
- Carcharhinus limbatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pennahia, 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
3 references- Fish otolith record reveals possible tropical-subtropical fish community in temperate Japan during the exceptionally warm Last Interglacial period1
- Fossil fishes of Taiwan: a review and prospection1
- Common early Pleistocene fish otoliths from Niubu in Chia-Yi County, southwestern Taiwan1
Each of the 3 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 Pennahia
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- George Henry Ford
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pennahia 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Pennahia”
- 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 itPerciformes through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fowler 1926