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Sciaenidae

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	210668	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=210668

Rank

family (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Sciaenidae

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
-	Percomorpharia
family	Sciaenidae	(Cuvier 1828)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Sciaenidae	family	belongs to Sciaenoidea	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Sciaenidae	family	belongs to Percoidea	stated without evidence	David, 1943
Sciaenidae	family	belongs to Kurtiformes	stated without evidence	Jordan, 1963
Sciaenidae	family	belongs to Perciformes	stated with evidence	Estes, 1964
Sciaenidae	family	belongs to Percoidae	stated with evidence	Frizzell and Dante, 1965
Sciaenidae	family	belongs to Osteichthyes	stated without evidence	Wilson, 1967
Sciaenidae	family	belongs to Perciformes	stated without evidence	Estes and Berberian, 1970
Sciaenidae	family	belongs to Percoidei	stated without evidence	Thurmond and Jones, 1981
Sciaenidae	family	belongs to Perciformes	stated without evidence	Weems, 1999
Sciaenidae	family	belongs to Percoidei	stated without evidence	Fierstine et al., 2012
Sciaenidae	family	belongs to Percomorpharia	stated with evidence	Betancur-R et al., 2013
Sciaenidae	family	belongs to Perciformes	stated without evidence	Szabo et al., 2017

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

26 (42%)

First Recorded Appearance

105 - 100 Ma
Cretaceous

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Acanthomorphata)

Diet

omnivore (based on Acanthomorphata)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. Estes. 1964. Fossil vertebrates from the Late Cretaceous Lance Formation, eastern Wyoming. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 49:1-187

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Aplodinotus genus	listed (PBDB)	15	48.6 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Argyrosomus genus	listed (PBDB)	2	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Atractoscion genus	listed (PBDB)	4	16.9 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Corvina ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	23	56.0 Ma Paleocene	28.1 Ma Oligocene
Cynoscion genus	listed (PBDB)	10	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Equetus genus	listed (PBDB)	11	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Genyonemus genus	listed (PBDB)	5	13.8 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Jefitchia ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	13	56.0 Ma Paleocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Larimus genus	listed (PBDB)	10	33.9 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Leiostomus genus	listed (PBDB)	2	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Lompochites ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Lompoquia ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	4	23.0 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Micropogonias genus	listed (PBDB)	4	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Platacodon genus	listed (PBDB)	21	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Pogonias genus	listed (PBDB)	41	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Pristipoma genus	listed (PBDB)	1	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Protosciaena genus	listed (PBDB)	2	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Pseudoeleginus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Pseudoumbrina ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Roncador genus	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Sciaenops genus	listed (PBDB)	9	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Totoaba ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Trewasciaena ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	5	13.8 Ma Miocene	7.25 Ma Miocene
Umbrina genus	listed (PBDB)	10	28.4 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1828	Sciaenoidei Cuvier
1902	Sciaenidae Hay p. 405
1943	Sciaenidae David p. 27
1960	Sciaenidae Danil'chenko p. 131
1963	Sciaenidae Jordan p. 701
1964	Sciaenidae Estes p. 51
1965	Sciaenidae Frizzell and Dante p. 703
1967	Sciaenidae Wilson p. 203
1970	Sciaenidae Estes and Berberian p. 4

Year	Name and Author
1980	Sciaenidae Danil'chenko p. 134
1981	Sciaenidae Thurmond and Jones p. 101
1999	Sciaenidae Weems p. 63
2001	Sciaenidae Purdy et al. p. 175
2012	Sciaenidae Fierstine et al. p. 124
2013	Sciaenidae Betancur-R. et al.
2017	Sciaenidae Szabo et al.
2018	Sciaenidae Carnevale and Godfrey p. 180
2019	Sciaenoidei Ebersole et al. p. 178

References

Estes R. (1964) Fossil vertebrates from the Late Cretaceous Lance Formation, eastern Wyoming, University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 49, 1-187

Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868

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

Jordan D. S. (1963) The Genera of Fishes and a Classification of Fishes, Stanford University Press, 1-816

Frizzell D. L., Dante J. H. (1965) Otoliths of some early Cenozoic fishes of the Gulf Coast, Journal of Paleontology 39 4, 687-718

Wilson R. L. (1967) The Pleistocene vertebrates of Michigan, Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 52, 197-234

Estes R., Berberian P. (1970) Paleoecology of a Late Cretaceous vertebrate community from Montana, Breviora 343, 1-35

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

Thurmond J. T., Jones D. E. (1981) , Fossil Vertebrates of Alabama, 1-244

Weems R. E. (1999) Part 4. Actinopterygian Fishes from the Fisher/Sullivan Site, Virginia Division of Mineral Resources Publication 152, 53-100

Purdy R. W., Schneider V. P., et al (2001) The Neogene sharks, rays, and bony fishes from Lee Creek Mine, Aurora, North Carolina, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 90, 71-202

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

Betancur-R. R., Broughton R. E., et al (2013) The tree of life and a new classification of bony fishes, PLOS Currents Tree of Life doi:10.1371/currents.tol.53ba26640df0ccaee75bb165c8c26288

Szabo M., Botfalvai G., et al (2017) Upper Oligocene marine fishes from nearshore deposits of the Central Paratethys (Máriahalom, Hungary), Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments doi:10.1007/s12549-017-0285-0

Carnevale G., Godfrey S. J. (2018) Miocene Bony Fishes of the Calvert, Choptank, St. Marys, and Eastover Formations, Chesapeake Group, Maryland and Virginia, Smithsonian Contribution to Paleobiology, 161-212

Ebersole J. A., Cicimurri D. J., et al (2019) Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the elasmobranchs and bony fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) of the lower-to-middle Eocene (Ypresian to Bartonian) Claiborne Group in Alabama, USA, including an analysis of otoliths, European Journal of Taxonomy 585, 1-274 doi:10.5852/ejt.2019.585

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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