Scomberomorini

Scomberomorini is a tribe of ray-finned, saltwater, bony fishes that is commonly known as Spanish mackerels, seerfishes, or seer fish. This tribe is a subset of the mackerel family (Scombridae), which it shares with four sister tribes, the tunas, mackerels, bonitos, and butterfly kingfish. Scomberomorini comprises 21 species across three genera. They are pelagic fish, fast swimmers and predatory in nature, that fight vigorously when caught. They are mainly caught using hooks and lines.

Scomberomorini

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ScombrinaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 42 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 38 occurrencesEocene — about 25 of 38 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 38 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 38 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 38 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–53 Mya — about 2 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–26 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.8–8.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.0–6.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.2–4.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.4–2.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48.07 Mya5.333 Mya57 Mya3 Mya

38 occurrences of Scomberomorini on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

38 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

21 formations

Selsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WLondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°EArgile des Flandres — 50.84°N, 4.25°EArgile des Flandres — 50.85°N, 4.37°EArgile des Flandres — 51.11°N, 3.71°EElmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WStone City — 30.67°N, 96.56°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 88.50°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WNanjemoy — 38.28°N, 77.37°WRosarito Beach — 32.12°N, 116.80°WCastillo — 10.37°N, 70.07°WTuscahoma — 32.40°N, 88.69°WShorym Svita — 43.40°N, 51.79°ECalvert — 38.16°N, 76.83°WEastover — 38.16°N, 76.83°WSamlat — 23.30°N, 16.06°WPshekha Horizon — 44.74°N, 39.81°EBerchem — 51.20°N, 4.44°ETallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°WAshley — 32.97°N, 80.20°WCatahoula — 31.66°N, 88.66°WPietra Leccese — 40.33°N, 18.19°E

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The named rock units Scomberomorini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scomberomorini and its relatives

Eocene

Where Scomberomorini and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,622 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Scomberomorini, 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

24 references

Each of the 38 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. 12 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 content1

Picture of Scomberomorini

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Scomberomorini was found in Sketchfab.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Starks 1910)