Scorpaena

Scorpaena is a widespread genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes.

Scorpaena

Lars Behnke · CC BY 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
Also called
scorpionfishPBDB
Sits inside
ScorpaenidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Scorpaeniformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Scorpaeniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Scorpaeniformes

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 129 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 20 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 20 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 13 of 20 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 20 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 20 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 0.2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 6 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.9–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences41.03 Mya774 ka57 Mya0 Mya

20 occurrences of Scorpaena 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

20 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

6 formations

Modelo — 34.13°N, 118.48°WModelo — 34.14°N, 118.44°WMonterey — 34.61°N, 120.44°WMonterey — 33.79°N, 117.81°WRaz-el-Ain — 35.71°N, 0.64°WLindos Bay — 36.09°N, 28.01°ECalcaire Grossier — 49.31°N, 2.25°EHrušky — 48.81°N, 16.63°E

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The named rock units Scorpaena has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scorpaena and its relatives

Miocene

Where Scorpaena and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

596 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Scorpaena, 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

13 references

Each of the 20 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. 1 further reference is 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 Scorpaena

Credit
Lars Behnke
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Scorpaena brasiliensis · UF:Fish:61589

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
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CC Attribution
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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

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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 itScorpaenidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

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