Percoidei

Percoidei is a suborder of bony fishes in the order Perciformes. Many commercially harvested fish species are considered to be contained in this suborder, including the groupers, seabasses and perches.

Percoidei

Rickard Zerpe · 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
PerciformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Perciformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Perciformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Perciformes

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 187 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 187 occurrencesEocene — about 49 of 187 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 37 of 187 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 70 of 187 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 15 of 187 occurrencesPleistocene — about 9 of 187 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 5 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 8 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 8 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 8 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 7 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 8 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 3 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 9 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 9 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 10 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 11 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 9 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 11 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 7 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 11 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 14 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 14 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 15 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 16 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka85 Mya0 Mya

187 occurrences of Percoidei 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

187 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

41 formations

Miretrain Marl — 43.56°N, 1.11°WMenilite — 49.74°N, 21.61°EMenilite — 49.63°N, 22.57°EMenilite — 49.75°N, 21.94°EMount Harris — 44.20°S, 170.71°EMount Harris — 44.48°S, 170.90°EMount Harris — 45.15°S, 170.93°EMount Harris — 44.30°S, 170.99°EMount Harris — 44.82°S, 170.88°EVolhyn Beds — 50.70°N, 27.00°ENachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EGreen River — 41.77°N, 110.75°WGreen River — 41.87°N, 110.68°WCromer Forest Bed — 52.94°N, 1.25°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.42°N, 1.72°EWaihao Greensand — 44.40°S, 171.04°ESouthburn Sand — 44.42°S, 170.89°ESouthburn Sand — 44.30°S, 171.00°EHrušky — 48.81°N, 16.63°ENavidad — 33.91°S, 71.84°WAral — 50.30°N, 57.18°EMenelite — 49.93°N, 22.02°EMenelite — 49.61°N, 21.75°EReuver clay — 50.90°N, 6.45°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.85°S, 170.52°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.66°S, 170.65°EOtekaeike Limestone — 44.81°S, 170.53°EChatton — 46.12°S, 168.79°ETylawa Limestones — 49.53°N, 21.93°ENawata — 2.90°N, 36.05°ENawata or Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EKingsdown — 37.04°N, 100.50°WKhapry — 47.24°N, 39.71°ELos Alamitos — 41.95°S, 66.33°WStudienka — 48.20°N, 17.98°E

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The named rock units Percoidei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 102 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Percoidei and its relatives

Miocene

Where Percoidei and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,519 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 129 sites for Percoidei, 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

63 references

Each of the 187 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. 51 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 Percoidei

Credit
Rickard Zerpe
Licence
CC BY 2.0
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)