Lagodon rhomboides

Lagodon is a monospecific genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sparidae, which includes the seabreams and porgies. The only species in the genus is Lagodon rhomboides, the pinfish, red porgy, bream, pin perch, sand perch, butterfish or sailor's choice. This fish is found in the Western Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico.

Lagodon rhomboides

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LagodonPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Perciformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Perciformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Perciformes

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesMiocene — about 7 of 10 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 10 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 10 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence13.82 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

10 occurrences of Lagodon rhomboides on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

10 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

8 formations

Calvert — 38.16°N, 76.83°WAlachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WPungo River — 35.40°N, 76.80°WChoptank — 38.16°N, 76.83°WSt. Marys — 38.16°N, 76.83°WEastover — 38.16°N, 76.83°W

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The named rock units Lagodon rhomboides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lagodon rhomboides and its relatives

Miocene

Where Lagodon rhomboides and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

984 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Lagodon rhomboides, 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

5 references

Each of the 10 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 Lagodon rhomboides

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Specimen
Lagodon rhomboides · TCWC:Ichthyology:15781.11

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

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

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What may have been alongside itLagodon through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1766)