Lesueurigobius

Lesueurigobius is a genus of gobies native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean. The generic name honours the French naturalist Charles Alexandre Lesueur (1778-1846), for whom the type species, Lesueurigobius suerii, was named, Georg Duncker's name Lesueuria being preoccupied by a genus of comb jellies.

Lesueurigobius

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GobiidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 129 ka.

Oligocene — about 5 of 65 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 29 of 65 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 10 of 65 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 21 of 65 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–22 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.3–8.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.4–7.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.5–5.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 9 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 8 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences23.04 Mya774 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

65 occurrences of Lesueurigobius 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

65 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

Lindos Bay — 36.09°N, 28.01°ELindos Bay — 36.26°N, 28.17°ELindos Bay — 36.36°N, 28.21°Efacies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°EHrušky — 48.81°N, 16.63°EEger — 47.92°N, 20.37°ESant’Agata Fossili — 45.07°N, 7.94°EKiscell Clay — 47.85°N, 20.48°EMandrové — 1.09°S, 8.94°EMarnes de Saint-Etienne-d’Orthe — 43.57°N, 1.10°W

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The named rock units Lesueurigobius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 44 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lesueurigobius and its relatives

Miocene

Where Lesueurigobius and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

730 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Lesueurigobius, 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

19 references

Each of the 65 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. 7 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 content2

Picture of Lesueurigobius

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CT scan

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Specimen
Lesueurigobius suerii · USNM:FISH:USNM 280380

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 itGobiidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Whitley 1950