Serranidae

Serranidae is a family of marine fish belonging to the order Perciformes. The family used to contain about 450 species in 65 genera, including some of the sea basses and groupers, but taxonomic revisions split out Epinephelinae (groupers), Grammistini (soapfish), and Anthiadinae (anthias); as a consequence, this family is now much less speciose. Representatives of this group live in tropical and subtropical seas worldwide.

Serranidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SerranoideiPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Perciformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Perciformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Perciformes

Time the record covers

At least 89 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 3 of 143 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 143 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 41 of 143 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 19 of 143 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 32 of 143 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 17 of 143 occurrencesPleistocene — about 16 of 143 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–64 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 4 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 6 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 9 occurrences45–42 Mya — about 9 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 7 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 3 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 4 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 5 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 6 occurrences26–22 Mya — about 5 occurrences22–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 5 occurrences13–9.6 Mya — about 7 occurrences9.6–6.4 Mya — about 9 occurrences6.4–3.2 Mya — about 19 occurrences3.2–0 Mya — about 31 occurrences89.8 Mya11.7 ka96 Mya0 Mya

143 occurrences of Serranidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

143 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

42 formations

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.76°N, 118.29°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.90°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.75°N, 118.29°WLondon Clay — 50.83°N, 0.78°WLondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°EWaihao Greensand — 44.40°S, 171.04°EWaihao Greensand — 44.80°S, 170.98°EYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WRaz-el-Ain — 35.71°N, 0.64°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WElmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WStudienka — 48.20°N, 17.98°EMonterey — 33.56°N, 117.71°WMonterey — 34.61°N, 120.44°WMiretrain Marl — 43.57°N, 1.11°WUrumaco — 11.08°N, 69.66°WUrumaco — 11.25°N, 70.27°WLede — 50.92°N, 3.78°EHeers — 50.10°N, 5.00°ERosefield — 31.89°N, 92.00°WEbelsberg — 48.21°N, 14.22°EMenilite — 49.49°N, 17.79°ENanjemoy — 38.28°N, 77.37°WRosarito Beach — 32.12°N, 116.80°WSan Mateo — 33.21°N, 117.38°WOnzole — 0.87°N, 79.89°WUmm Himar — 21.17°N, 41.42°EGatun — 9.36°N, 79.84°WBahía Inglesa — 27.13°S, 70.83°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.51°W

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The named rock units Serranidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 58 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Serranidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Serranidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,979 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 105 sites for Serranidae, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

79 references

Each of the 143 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. 67 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 Serranidae

Credit
Sarah Faulwetter
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Serranidae 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

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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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Swainson 1839