Scomberomorus

Scomberomorus is a genus of ray-finned bony fish in the mackerel family, Scombridae. More specifically, it is a member of the tribe Scomberomorini, commonly known as the Spanish mackerels.

Scomberomorus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 37 occurrencesEocene — about 22 of 37 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 37 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 9 of 37 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 37 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 37 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences55–53 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 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–35 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–26 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–8.9 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences8.9–7.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.1–5.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.2–3.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.4–1.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences48.07 Mya3.6 Mya57 Mya2 Mya

37 occurrences of Scomberomorus 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

37 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

19 formations

Tallahatta — 31.38°N, 86.67°WTallahatta — 31.31°N, 88.73°WTallahatta — 31.57°N, 88.34°WTallahatta — 31.79°N, 88.32°WTallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°WNanjemoy — 38.28°N, 77.37°WLisbon — 31.87°N, 88.32°WLisbon — 31.36°N, 86.52°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.59°N, 88.02°WAshley — 32.95°N, 80.18°WAshley — 32.97°N, 80.20°WAdaev — 44.11°N, 52.81°ELuanda — 8.76°S, 13.30°EDanata — 38.61°N, 56.88°EShorym Svita — 43.40°N, 51.79°ECalvert — 38.16°N, 76.83°WChoptank — 38.16°N, 76.83°WSt. Marys — 38.16°N, 76.83°WEastover — 38.16°N, 76.83°WPshekha Horizon — 44.74°N, 39.81°EArgile des Flandres — 50.85°N, 4.37°ECatahoula — 31.66°N, 88.66°WAlai Beds — 42.00°N, 76.00°EPietra Leccese — 40.33°N, 18.19°ETupelo Bay — 33.24°N, 80.44°W

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The named rock units Scomberomorus 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.

Scomberomorus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Scomberomorus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,038 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Scomberomorus, 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

20 references

Each of the 37 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. 8 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 Scomberomorus

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

Photogrammetry

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Scomberomorus macropomum · oumnh:pal:L.00272

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lacépède 1802