Lethrinus
Lethrinus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Lethrinidae, the emperors and emperor breams. These fishes are mostly found in the Indian and western Pacific Oceans, with a single species in the eastern Atlantic Ocean.
Richard Ling from NSW, Australia · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
- LethrinidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At least 31 million years on record.
The record covers at least 45.7 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 52 Mya to 12.8 Mya.
4 occurrences of Lethrinus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
4 occurrencesThese 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.
Lethrinus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Lethrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
71 taxa- Acropoma aurora2 sites
- Ampheristus sinuocaudatus2 sites
- Antigonia artata2 sites
- Aulopus pristinus2 sites
- Cephalopholis aotearoa2 sites
- Conger davidsmithi2 sites
- Dapalis antipodus2 sites
- Eomyctophum2 sites
- Eomyctophum broncus2 sites
- Epigonus2 sites
- Gerres2 sites
- Holocentronotus2 sites
- Macrurulus immanis2 sites
- Maorigadus anarchicus2 sites
- Maxwelliella urbana2 sites
- Neoscombrops vetustus2 sites
- Parapercis richardsoni2 sites
- Platycephalus iaiunus2 sites
- Pomadasyidarum krebsi2 sites
- Pseudaequalobythites biplex2 sites
- Pterothrissus angulatus2 sites
- Rhynchoconger eocenicus2 sites
- Scopelosaurus brevirostris2 sites
- Serranidarum dentatus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Lethrinus, 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
2 references- Reconstruction of the fossil marine bony fish fauna (Teleostei) from the Eocene to Pleistocene of New Zealand by means of otoliths. With studies of Recent congroid, morid and trachinoid otoliths2
- Lower Badenian fish otoliths of the Styrian and Lavanttal basins, with a revision of Weinfurter's type material2
Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Lethrinus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Richard Ling from NSW, Australia
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC0 Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Lethrinus”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLethrinidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cuvier 1829