Clarotes

Clarotes is a genus of claroteid catfishes native to East Africa.

Clarotes

Boulenger, George Albert; Loat, L. · Public Domain · 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
ClaroteidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Siluriformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Siluriformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Siluriformes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Siluriformes

Time the record covers

At least 7.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 13.82 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 3 of 11 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 11 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 3 of 11 occurrencesPleistocene14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.5–9.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.1–8.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.6–8.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.1–7.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.6–7.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.2–6.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.7–6.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.2–5.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.3–4.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.8–4.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.3–3.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.3–2.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.9–2.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.4–1.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.9–1.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.4–955 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences955 ka–477 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences477 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.246 Mya11.7 ka14.3 Mya0 Mya

11 occurrences of Clarotes on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

5 formations

Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°ENachukui — 4.27°N, 35.82°EKoobi Fora — 4.31°N, 36.22°ENawata — 2.90°N, 36.05°ENawata or Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EBeglia — 34.00°N, 8.00°E

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The named rock units Clarotes 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.

Clarotes and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Clarotes and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

281 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Clarotes, 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

8 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. 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 Clarotes

Credit
Boulenger, George Albert; Loat, L.
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Clarotes laticeps · ANSP:FISH:77912

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 itClaroteidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kner 1855