Pomadasys

Pomadasys is a genus of grunts native to the waters of the eastern Atlantic Ocean and through the Indian Ocean to the Pacific coast of the Americas. The name of this genus is a compound of poma meaning "lid" or "covering" and dasys meaning "rough", a reference to the serrated preopercle.

Pomadasys

Craig Thom · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
HaemulidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 774 ka.

Eocene — about 4 of 38 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 38 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 30 of 38 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 38 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 38 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–9.8 Mya — about 6 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 6 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 6 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences41.03 Mya1.8 Mya49 Mya0 Mya

38 occurrences of Pomadasys on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

38 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

11 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.80°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.84°WMiri — 4.87°N, 114.79°EMiri — 4.87°N, 114.86°ESelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WSeria — 4.81°N, 114.67°EElmore — 50.80°N, 1.21°WCantaure — 11.97°N, 70.02°WRaz-el-Ain — 35.71°N, 0.64°WHrušky — 48.81°N, 16.63°ECalcare Massiccio — 42.93°N, 11.87°ELiuchungchi — 23.44°N, 120.59°ETapu — 24.96°N, 121.38°E

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The named rock units Pomadasys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pomadasys and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pomadasys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

847 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Pomadasys, 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

20 references

Each of the 38 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. 8 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 content2

Picture of Pomadasys

Credit
Craig Thom
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CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

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Specimen
Pomadasys macracanthus · KU:KUI:40306

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itHaemulidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lacépède 1802