Scomber

Scomber is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Scombridae living in the open ocean found in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean. The genus Scomber and the genus Rastrelliger comprise the tribe Scombrini, known as the "true mackerels". These fishes have an elongated body, highly streamlined, muscular and agile. The eyes are large, the head is elongated, with a big mouth provided with teeth. They have two triangular dorsal fins, with some stabilizing fins along the caudal peduncle. The basic color is blue-green with a silvery white belly and a darker back, usually black mottled.

Scomber

Titus Tscharntke · 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
ScombridaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 33 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 33 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 33 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 21 of 33 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 33 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 33 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 3 occurrences10–8.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.2–6.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences6.4–4.5 Mya — about 5 occurrences4.5–2.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.6–716 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence48.07 Mya2.58 Mya57 Mya716 ka

33 occurrences of Scomber 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

33 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

7 formations

Modelo — 34.13°N, 118.49°WModelo — 34.15°N, 118.47°WModelo — 34.13°N, 118.42°WRosarito Beach — 32.12°N, 116.80°WSakaraul Horizon — 44.36°N, 39.80°ERaz-el-Ain — 35.71°N, 0.64°WMenilite — 49.20°N, 17.20°ETsurevsky — 44.41°N, 39.79°EKurasi — 47.87°N, 142.10°E

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The named rock units Scomber has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scomber and its relatives

Miocene

Where Scomber and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

929 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Scomber, 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

22 references

Each of the 33 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. 10 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 Scomber

Credit
Titus Tscharntke
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Scomber scombrus · MCZ:Ich:58498

3D model

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

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itScombridae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758