Lactarius

Lactarius

Hamid Badar Osmany · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
LactariidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 42 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 78 occurrencesEocene — about 28 of 78 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 11 of 78 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 37 of 78 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 78 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 3 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 4 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 4 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 5 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 5 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 6 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 4 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 9 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 9 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.8–8.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.0–6.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.2–4.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.4–2.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences48.07 Mya5.333 Mya57 Mya3 Mya

78 occurrences of Lactarius on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

78 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

34 formations

Mount Harris — 44.48°S, 170.90°EMount Harris — 45.15°S, 170.93°EMount Harris — 44.49°S, 171.01°EMount Harris — 45.03°S, 171.02°EMount Harris — 44.83°S, 170.97°ECook Mountain — 30.61°N, 96.57°WCook Mountain — 31.33°N, 95.52°WCook Mountain — 32.03°N, 88.70°WYazoo — 31.66°N, 92.90°WYazoo — 31.93°N, 91.94°WStone City — 30.67°N, 96.56°WKokoamu Greensand — 44.86°S, 170.54°EKokoamu Greensand — 44.67°S, 170.36°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.85°S, 170.52°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.66°S, 170.65°ERifle Butts Siltstone — 45.14°S, 170.93°EBells Creek Mudstone — 41.34°S, 175.46°EElmore — 50.80°N, 1.21°WBlack Rock Sandstone — 37.99°S, 145.04°ECantaure — 11.97°N, 70.02°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.84°WNanggulan — 7.73°S, 110.18°EMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WFyansford — 38.23°S, 145.02°EWharekuri Greensand — 44.66°S, 170.37°ERifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°EMangapari Mudstone — 41.33°S, 175.48°EWaihao Greensand — 44.80°S, 170.98°EWaioha Shellbeds — 34.50°S, 172.96°EWaititi — 35.54°S, 173.37°EWaitoura Marl — 44.78°S, 170.57°EOtekaeike Limestone — 44.81°S, 170.53°ESlip Point Siltstone — 46.03°S, 167.71°E

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The named rock units Lactarius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lactarius and its relatives

Miocene

Where Lactarius and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

790 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 74 sites for Lactarius, 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

18 references

Each of the 78 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. 6 further references are not listed. 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 Lactarius

Credit
Hamid Badar Osmany
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Lactarius lactarius · LACM:Fish:38318.001

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cuvier and Valenciennes 1833