Sardinops

Sardinops is a genus of sardines of the family Alosidae. It is found in the Indo-Pacific, East Pacific, Southeastern Atlantic, and southwestern Indian oceans. Its length is up to 40 cm (16 in). It has numerous common or vernacular names, some of which more appropriately refer to subspecies, including blue pilchard, blue-bait, South American pilchard, Chilean sardine, and Pacific sardine.

Sardinops

harum.koh from Kobe city, Japan · CC BY-SA 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
ClupeidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Clupeiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Clupeiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Clupeiformes

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 27 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 27 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 11 of 27 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 27 occurrencesPleistocene — about 8 of 27 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.9–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences37.71 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

27 occurrences of Sardinops 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

27 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

12 formations

Pisco — 14.35°S, 75.88°WPisco — 15.48°S, 74.80°WBahía Inglesa — 27.04°S, 70.81°WBahía Inglesa — 27.17°S, 70.87°WOtuma — 13.87°S, 76.27°WWilson Grove — 38.34°N, 122.84°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.90°WChatton — 46.11°S, 168.80°ECalcaire Grossier — 49.31°N, 2.25°ELa Portada — 23.11°S, 70.36°WMiyata — 35.19°N, 39.65°ECook Mountain — 31.33°N, 95.52°WYokosuka — 35.26°N, 139.72°ENarita — 35.78°N, 140.32°E

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The named rock units Sardinops has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sardinops and its relatives

Miocene

Where Sardinops and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

565 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Sardinops, 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 27 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 content3

Picture of Sardinops

Credit
harum.koh from Kobe city, Japan
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Sardinops caerulea · UWFC:ADULT COLLECTION:UW 004853

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itClupeidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hubbs 1929