Sparus aurata

The gilt-head bream, also known as the gilthead, dourade, gilt-head seabream, European seabream or silver seabream, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sparidae, the seabreams or porgies. This fish is found in the Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. It is a highly esteemed food fish and an important species in aquaculture.

Sparus aurata

(c) Julien Renoult, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY 4.0 · 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
gilthead seabreamPBDB
Sits inside
SparusPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 6 of 11 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 11 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 11 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.8–9.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.1–8.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.0–6.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.3–5.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.1–1.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.4–698 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences13.82 Mya11.7 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

11 occurrences of Sparus aurata 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

11 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

1 formation

Lagos-Portimão — 37.08°N, 8.28°WLagos-Portimão — 37.08°N, 8.67°W

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The named rock units Sparus aurata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sparus aurata and its relatives

Miocene

Where Sparus aurata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

333 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Sparus aurata, 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

9 references

Each of the 11 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Sparus aurata

Credit
(c) Julien Renoult, some rights reserved (CC BY)
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sparus aurata 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

Licence
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 itSparus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

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