Lutjanus

Lutjanus is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, snappers belonging to the family Lutjanidae. They are found in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans. They are predatory fish usually found in tropical and subtropical reefs and mangrove forests. This genus also includes two species that only occur in fresh and brackish waters.

Lutjanus

Jens Petersen · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
LutjaninaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 13 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesMiocene — about 4 of 13 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 13 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences41.03 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

13 occurrences of Lutjanus on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

13 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

Selsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WElmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WAlachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WKempsville — 36.79°N, 76.17°WRosarito Beach — 32.12°N, 116.80°WMonterey — 33.79°N, 117.81°WCalcaire Grossier — 49.31°N, 2.25°E

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The named rock units Lutjanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lutjanus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Lutjanus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

491 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Lutjanus, 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

10 references

Each of the 13 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 content3

Picture of Lutjanus

Credit
Jens Petersen
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Lutjanus cyanopterus · UF:EAComp:1401

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

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 itLutjaninae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bloch 1790