Pomoxis

Crappies are two species of North American freshwater fish of the genus Pomoxis in the family Centrarchidae (sunfishes). Both species of crappies are popular game fish among recreational anglers.

Pomoxis

Robert W. Hines, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service · 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
CentrarchidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 9.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 9.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 12.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 2 of 8 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 3 of 8 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 3 of 8 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–10.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10.0–9.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.5–9.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.1–8.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.7–8.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.2–7.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.8–7.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.4–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–5.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.6–5.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.2–4.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.8–4.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.6–2.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.2–1.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.7–1.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.3–867 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences867 ka–433 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences433 ka–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.4 Mya11.7 ka13 Mya0 Mya

8 occurrences of Pomoxis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

8 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

2 formations

Ogallala — 39.08°N, 99.75°WOgallala — 38.90°N, 101.70°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°W

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The named rock units Pomoxis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pomoxis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Pomoxis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

302 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Pomoxis, 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

8 references

Each of the 8 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 content2

Picture of Pomoxis

Credit
Robert W. Hines, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

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

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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itCentrarchidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.