Perciformes

Perciformes, is an order of ray-finned fish in the clade Percomorpha. Perciformes means "perch-like". Among the well-known members of this group are perches and darters (Percidae), and also sea basses (Serranidae). This order contains many familiar freshwater temperate and tropical marine fish groups, but also extremophiles that have successfully colonized both the North and South Poles, as well as the deepest depths of the ocean.

Perciformes

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
perch-like fishPBDB
Sits inside
EupercariaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
nektonicPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 976 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 18 of 976 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 8 of 976 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 196 of 976 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 116 of 976 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 364 of 976 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 101 of 976 occurrencesPleistocene — about 137 of 976 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–68 Mya — about 8 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 6 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 1 occurrence62–58 Mya — about 4 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 12 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 29 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 34 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 38 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 41 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 30 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 13 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 29 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 31 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 48 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 35 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 69 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 72 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 84 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 65 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 117 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 205 occurrences93.9 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

976 occurrences of Perciformes 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

976 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

170 formations

Hrušky — 48.81°N, 16.63°EPalos Verdes Sand — 33.76°N, 118.29°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.90°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.75°N, 118.29°WMiretrain Marl — 43.56°N, 1.11°WLagos-Portimão — 37.08°N, 8.28°WLagos-Portimão — 37.12°N, 8.54°WLagos-Portimão — 37.08°N, 8.67°WMonterey — 33.71°N, 118.31°WMonterey — 33.56°N, 117.71°WMonterey — 34.58°N, 120.34°WMonterey — 34.61°N, 120.44°WMonterey — 33.79°N, 117.81°WRaz-el-Ain — 35.71°N, 0.64°WWaihao Greensand — 44.40°S, 171.04°EWaihao Greensand — 44.80°S, 170.98°EMount Harris — 44.20°S, 170.71°EMount Harris — 44.48°S, 170.90°EMount Harris — 45.21°S, 170.88°EMount Harris — 45.15°S, 170.93°EMount Harris — 44.30°S, 170.99°EMount Harris — 44.82°S, 170.88°ETimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WLindos Bay — 36.09°N, 28.01°ELindos Bay — 36.26°N, 28.17°ELindos Bay — 36.36°N, 28.21°ELondon Clay — 50.83°N, 0.78°WLondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ESouthburn Sand — 44.30°S, 171.00°ESouthburn Sand — 44.42°S, 170.89°ENachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EChatton — 46.12°S, 168.79°ENavidad — 33.91°S, 71.84°WNavidad — 33.95°S, 71.87°WSan Pedro — 33.75°N, 118.29°WMenilite — 49.74°N, 21.61°EMenilite — 49.63°N, 22.57°EMenilite — 49.75°N, 21.94°ERifle Butts — 45.08°S, 170.95°ERifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°ESelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WModelo — 34.13°N, 118.48°WModelo — 34.14°N, 118.45°WOtekaike Limestone — 44.79°S, 170.51°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.85°S, 170.52°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.66°S, 170.65°ECalcaire Grossier — 49.31°N, 2.25°E

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The named rock units Perciformes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 146 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 453 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Perciformes and its relatives

Miocene

Where Perciformes and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

5,515 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 466 sites for Perciformes, and this reads 240 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

288 references

Each of the 976 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. 276 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 Perciformes

Credit
Ranko
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
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

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. Bleeker 1859