Tilapia sp.

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Alexandra Tyers · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikidata/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.

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 3 of 16 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 16 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 8 of 16 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.3–2.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.2–1.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.6–1.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.1–549 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences11.63 Mya11.7 ka16.5 Mya0 Mya

16 occurrences of Tilapia sp. 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

16 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

5 formations

Kapthurin — 0.50°N, 36.00°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 35.37°EOlduvai — 2.99°S, 35.34°ENgorora — 0.90°N, 35.85°ETiim — 0.84°N, 35.82°EMuluk — 30.42°N, 30.25°E

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The named rock units Tilapia sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tilapia sp. and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Tilapia sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

282 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Tilapia sp., 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

13 references

Each of the 16 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. 1 further reference is 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 content3

Picture of Tilapia sp.

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CT scan

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Specimen
Tilapia sparrmanii · CUMV:Fish:91199

3D model

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Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.