Trachurus trachurus

The Atlantic horse mackerel, also known as the European horse mackerel or common scad, is a species of jack mackerel in the family Carangidae, which includes the jacks, pompanos and trevallies. It is found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean off Europe and Africa and into the south-eastern Indian Ocean. It is an important species in commercial fisheries and is listed as a Vulnerable species on The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Trachurus trachurus

Kare Kare · 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
TrachurusPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 3.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 129 ka.

Miocene — about 5 of 8 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 8 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 8 occurrences7.5–7.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.7–6.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.2–5.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.1–1.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.8–1.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.5–1.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.3–1.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.0–775 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences775 ka–516 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences516 ka–258 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences258 ka–0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.333 Mya1.8 Mya7.7 Mya0 Mya

8 occurrences of Trachurus trachurus on record. 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

8 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

Raz-el-Ain — 35.71°N, 0.64°W

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The named rock units Trachurus trachurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

187 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Trachurus trachurus, 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

4 references

Each of the 8 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. 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 content2

Picture of Trachurus trachurus

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

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Trachurus trachurus · UF:Fish:88600

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itTrachurus through timeThe world it lived on

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