Sparus

Sparus

Roberto Pillon · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
SparidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 87 occurrencesEocene — about 21 of 87 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 87 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 54 of 87 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 87 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 87 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–46 Mya — about 3 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–34 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 7 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 11 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 7 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 10 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

87 occurrences of Sparus 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

87 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

24 formations

Lagos-Portimão — 37.08°N, 8.28°WLagos-Portimão — 37.12°N, 8.54°WLagos-Portimão — 37.08°N, 8.67°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WRaz-el-Ain — 35.71°N, 0.64°WCook Mountain — 30.61°N, 96.57°WCook Mountain — 31.33°N, 95.52°WCook Mountain — 32.03°N, 88.70°WElmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WLuanda — 8.76°S, 13.30°EHrušky — 48.81°N, 16.63°EScotland — 13.21°N, 59.56°WGrund — 48.63°N, 16.06°EEntre Rios — 33.72°S, 59.25°WLeitha — 47.81°N, 16.63°ECalcarenites of Sant Elm — 39.92°N, 3.06°ERzehakia — 48.33°N, 14.30°ERío Banano — 9.92°N, 83.55°WCurré — 8.86°N, 83.08°WCatahoula — 31.66°N, 88.66°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.04°W“upper” Lisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WMoodys Branch — 31.89°N, 88.39°WPiney Point — 37.61°N, 76.76°WVic-Igualada — 41.90°N, 2.20°EKhuiala — 27.17°N, 70.50°EByram — 31.57°N, 88.04°WSzurdokpüspöki — 47.93°N, 19.76°E

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The named rock units Sparus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 40 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sparus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Sparus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,507 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 67 sites for Sparus, 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

46 references

Each of the 87 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. 34 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 Sparus

Credit
Roberto Pillon
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sparus 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itSparidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

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