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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	36184	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=36184

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Scombriformes : Scombridae : Scomber

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
superclass	Actinopterygii
class	Actinopteri
subclass	Neopterygii
-	Teleosteomorpha	Arratia et al. 2004
-	Teleostei
-	Osteoglossocephalai
-	Clupeocephala	Patterson and Rosen 1977
-	Euteleosteomorpha
-	Neoteleostei	Rosen 1973
-	Eurypterygia
-	Ctenosquamata
-	Acanthomorphata
-	Euacanthomorphacea
-	Percomorphaceae
-	Scombrimorpharia
order	Scombriformes
family	Scombridae
genus	Scomber	Linnaeus 1758

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Scomber	genus	belongs to Scombrinae	stated without evidence	Starks, 1910
Scomber	genus	belongs to Scombridae	stated without evidence	Pauca, 1929
Scomber	genus	belongs to Scombrini	stated without evidence	Klawe, 1977
Scomber	genus	belongs to Scombridae	stated without evidence	Danil'chenko, 1980
Scomber	genus	belongs to Scombrini	stated without evidence	Collette et al., 2001
Scomber	genus	belongs to Perciformes	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Scomber	genus	belongs to Scombrini	stated without evidence	Monsch and Bannikov, 2011
Scomber	genus	belongs to Scombridae	stated without evidence	Fierstine et al., 2012

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

5 (45%)

First Recorded Appearance

33.9 - 28.1 Ma
Oligocene

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Acanthomorphata)

Diet

omnivore (based on Acanthomorphata)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Scomber australasicus species	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Scomber caucasica ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Scomber colias species	listed (PBDB)	4	7.25 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Scomber cubanicus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Scomber gnarus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Scomber japonicus species	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Scomber oligocenicus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Scomber sanctaemonicae ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	3	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Scomber scombrus species	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Scomber voitestii ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1758	Scomber Linnaeus p. 297
1910	Scomber Starks p. 80
1929	Scomber Pauca p. 31
1943	Scomber David p. 29
1960	Scomber Danil'chenko p. 158
1968	Scomber Jerzmanska p. 466

Year	Name and Author
1977	Scomber Klawe p. 1
1980	Scomber Danil'chenko p. 160
2001	Scomber Collette et al. p. 2
2002	Scomber Sepkoski, Jr.
2011	Scomber Monsch and Bannikov p. 273
2012	Scomber Fierstine et al. p. 145

References

Linnaeus C. , Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1, 1-824 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.542

Starks E. C. (1910) The Osteology and mutual relationships of the fishes belonging to the Family Scombridae, Journal of Morphology 21 1, 77-99

Pauca M. (1929) Vorläufige mitteilung über eine fossile fischfauna aus den Oligozänschiefern von Sulanesti, Muscel, Academia Romana 12 4-5, 26-34

David L. R. (1943) Miocene Fishes of Southern California, Geological Society of America Special Paper 43, 1-187

Danil'chenko P. G. (1960) Bony fishes of the Maikop deposits of the Caucasus, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 78, 1-247

Jerzmanska A. (1968) Ichtyofaune des couches a ménilite (flysch des Karpathes), Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 13 3, 379-488

Danil'chenko P. G. (1980) Otryad Perciformes, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR 178, 115-169

Collette B. B., Reeb C., et al (2001) Systematics of the tunas and mackerels (Scombridae), Fish Physiology: Tuna 19, 1-33

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Monsch K. A., Bannikov A. F. (2011) New taxonomic synopses and revision of the scombroid fishes (Scombroidei, Perciformes), including billfishes, from the Cenozoic of territories of the former USSR, Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 102 4, 253-300 doi:10.1017/S1755691011010085

Fierstine H. L., Huddleston R. W., et al (2012) Catalog of the Neogene bony fishes of California: A ystematic inventory of all published accounts, Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 159, 1-206

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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