Lateolabrax japonicus
The Japanese sea bass is a species of catadromous marine ray-finned fish from the Asian sea bass family Lateolabracidae. It is found in the Western Pacific.

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Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Lateolabrax japonicus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
1 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Lateolabrax japonicus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Lateolabrax japonicus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Acanthopagrus sp.1 site
- Amblychaeturichthys sp.1 site
- Carangidae1 site
- Chaenogobius castaneus1 site
- Hemiramphidae1 site
- Konosirus sp.1 site
- Kuhlia1 site
- Mugilidae1 site
- Percoidei1 site
- Platycephalus indicus1 site
- Plecoglossus altivelis1 site
- Pleuronectiformes1 site
- Sardinella1 site
- Scorpaenifores indet.1 site
- Teraponidae indet.1 site
- Tridentiger sp.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Lateolabrax japonicus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Lateolabrax japonicus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Izuzuki
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lateolabrax japonicus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
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 itFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.