Scorpaenoidei

Scorpaenoidei is a suborder of ray-finned fishes, part of the order Perciformes, that includes the scorpionfishes, lionfishes, stonefishes, sea robins and flatheads. This suborder is at its most diverse in the Pacific and Indian Oceans but is also found in the Atlantic Ocean.

Scorpaenoidei

Dmitriy Konstantinov · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
Sits inside
ScorpaeniformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Scorpaeniformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Scorpaeniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Scorpaeniformes

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 107 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 9 of 107 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 15 of 107 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 35 of 107 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 107 occurrencesPleistocene — about 31 of 107 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–31 Mya — about 4 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 4 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 5 occurrences10–8.4 Mya — about 6 occurrences8.4–6.3 Mya — about 8 occurrences6.3–4.2 Mya — about 8 occurrences4.2–2.1 Mya — about 7 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 37 occurrences59.24 Mya11.7 ka63 Mya0 Mya

107 occurrences of Scorpaenoidei on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

107 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

31 formations

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.90°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.75°N, 118.29°WMonterey — 34.61°N, 120.44°WMonterey — 33.79°N, 117.81°WBoom Clay — 51.13°N, 4.26°EBoom Clay — 51.09°N, 4.40°EBoom Clay — 51.19°N, 4.32°EModelo — 34.13°N, 118.48°WModelo — 34.14°N, 118.44°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WPort Orford — 42.83°N, 124.56°WPort Orford — 42.82°N, 124.54°WElk River — 42.81°N, 124.81°WSan Pedro — 33.75°N, 118.29°WPort Campbell Limestone — 37.72°S, 141.93°ERaz-el-Ain — 35.71°N, 0.64°WNavidad — 33.94°S, 71.85°WLondon Clay — 50.83°N, 0.78°WTsurushi — 38.01°N, 138.27°EJewett — 35.49°N, 118.85°WAlzey — 49.83°N, 7.72°EBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WBassevelde Sand — 51.08°N, 4.35°EWilson Grove — 38.34°N, 122.84°WHarudi — 23.52°N, 68.68°EKishima — 33.38°N, 129.93°ELindos Bay — 36.09°N, 28.01°EBrowns Creek Clay — 38.77°S, 143.40°EPakaurangi — 36.24°S, 174.28°EKoshikawa — 43.94°N, 145.11°E

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The named rock units Scorpaenoidei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 38 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scorpaenoidei and its relatives

Miocene

Where Scorpaenoidei and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,250 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 73 sites for Scorpaenoidei, 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

56 references

Each of the 107 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. 44 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 Scorpaenoidei

Credit
Dmitriy Konstantinov
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Scorpaenoidei 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.

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. (Garman 1899)