Zeus faber
John Dory, St Pierre, or Peter's fish are names which refers to fish of the genus Zeus, especially Zeus faber, which is a demersal coastal marine fish. This widespread species has a laterally compressed olive-yellow body which has a large dark spot, and long spines on the dorsal fin. Its large eyes at the front of the head provide it with binocular vision and depth perception, which are important for predators. The John Dory's eye spot on the side of its body also confuses prey, which are scooped up in its large mouth.
de:Benutzer:Kleines.Opossum · 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
- ZeusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Zeiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Zeiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Zeiformes
Time the record covers
At least 5.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 0 Mya.
5 occurrences of Zeus faber on record. 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
5 occurrences- Miocene60%
- Pliocene11%
- Pleistocene9%
- Holocene20%
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
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The named rock units Zeus faber has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
228 taxa- Epinephelus4 sites
- Spratelloides gracilis4 sites
- Bregmaceros albyi3 sites
- Gadiculus3 sites
- Maurolicus muelleri3 sites
- Alosa elongata2 sites
- Boops roulei2 sites
- Capros2 sites
- Capros aper2 sites
- Etrumeus boulei2 sites
- Lophius budegassa2 sites
- Microchirus abropteryx2 sites
- Myctophum dorsale2 sites
- Myctophum licatae2 sites
- Sarda roulei2 sites
- Sardina crassa2 sites
- Sargus oranensis2 sites
- Scomber colias2 sites
- Scorpaena2 sites
- Solea2 sites
- Syngnathus albyi2 sites
- Trachurus trachurus2 sites
- Achirus mediterraneus1 site
- Alosa crassa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Zeus faber, 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- Paléobiodiversité et paléoenvironnements: l’exemple des gisements de poissons téléostéens du Messinien préévaporitique d’Oran et du bassin du Chélif (Algérie)2
- Povoado muculmano na Ponta do Castelo (Aljezur)1
- Données récentes sur Les téléostéens du Miocène et du Pliocéne d'Italie1
- Second record of Tursiops osennae (Cetacea: Delphinidae) in a Pliocene horizon of the Romagna Apennines, Central Italy, and the phylogeny of Tursiops1
Each of the 5 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 content3
Picture of Zeus faber
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- de:Benutzer:Kleines.Opossum
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Zeus faber · KU:KUI:41448
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC0 Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “John Dory”
- 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 itZeus through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758