Sardina

Sardina

Gervais et Boulart · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
ClupeidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Clupeiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Clupeiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Clupeiformes

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 774 ka.

Eocene — about 0 of 35 occurrencesOligocene — about 4 of 35 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 19 of 35 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 10 of 35 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 35 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.3–8.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences8.2–7.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.0–5.9 Mya — about 8 occurrences5.9–4.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences4.7–3.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.6–2.4 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.4–1.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.3–111 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27.3 Mya1.8 Mya34.6 Mya111 ka

35 occurrences of Sardina 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

35 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

6 formations

Finikia — 35.30°N, 25.27°EPakhna — 34.76°N, 32.92°ERaz-el-Ain — 35.71°N, 0.64°WMakrilia — 35.04°N, 25.76°EAbad — 37.09°N, 2.08°WYesares — 37.08°N, 2.09°W

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The named rock units Sardina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sardina and its relatives

Miocene

Where Sardina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

432 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Sardina, 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

19 references

Each of the 35 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. 7 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 Sardina

Credit
Gervais et Boulart
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.

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. Antipa 1905