Sciaena simplex
No picture of Sciaena simplex was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sciaena simplex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SciaenaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Sciaena simplex on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
- Ameki Formation · Bende-Ameki Group2
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The named rock units Sciaena simplex has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sciaena simplex and its relatives
EoceneWhere Sciaena simplex and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Aetomylaeus dixoni2 sites
- Aetomylaeus striatus2 sites
- Anoxypristis mucrodens2 sites
- Aprionodon amekiensis2 sites
- Arius africanus2 sites
- Arius amekiensis2 sites
- Arius angulatus2 sites
- Arius hewardbelli2 sites
- Arius kitsoni2 sites
- Brachycarcharias koerti2 sites
- Carcharodon debrayi2 sites
- Chrysichthys eaglesomei2 sites
- Crenilabrus eocenicus2 sites
- Cylindracanthus rectus2 sites
- Galeocerdo latidens2 sites
- Hypoprion overricus2 sites
- Isurus desorii2 sites
- Myliobatis toliapicus2 sites
- Pagellus concavus2 sites
- Platylaemus nigeriensis2 sites
- Pristis lathami2 sites
- Propristis schweinfurthi2 sites
- Pseudosphaerodon pycnodoides2 sites
- Rhinoptera sherborni2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Sciaena simplex, 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
2 referencesEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Sciaena simplex was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sciaena simplex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sciaena simplex was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSciaena through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Frost 1926