Lopholatilus

Lopholatilus is a small genus of large-sized tilefishes native to the western Atlantic Ocean.

Lopholatilus

SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC · Public Domain · 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
MalacanthidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 8.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Miocene — about 8 of 10 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 10 occurrencesPliocene16–16 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.8–5.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.0–3.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13.82 Mya5.333 Mya16.5 Mya3.1 Mya

10 occurrences of Lopholatilus 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

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

2 formations

Calvert — 38.18°N, 76.97°WCalvert — 38.63°N, 76.51°WCalvert — 37.22°N, 76.96°WCalvert — 38.16°N, 76.83°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°W

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The named rock units Lopholatilus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Lopholatilus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Lopholatilus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

552 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Lopholatilus, 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 Lopholatilus

Credit
SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps · MCZ:Ich:34562

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.

Keep going

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Goode and Bean 1879