Bagre

Bagre is a genus of sea catfishes found along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the Americas from southern North America to northern South America. They are the only member of the subfamily Bagreinae. Currently, five species are described:Bagre bagre (Linnaeus, 1766) Bagre filamentosus (Swainson, 1839) Bagre marinus (Mitchill, 1815) Bagre panamensis (T. N. Gill, 1863) Bagre pinnimaculatus (Steindachner, 1877)

Bagre

Gdr · 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
AriidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Siluriformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Siluriformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Siluriformes
Environment
marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Ariidae

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 774 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesMiocene — about 6 of 10 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 10 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 10 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences10–9.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.6–8.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.8–8.0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.0–7.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.3–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–4.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.2–3.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.8–1.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.1–274 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15.98 Mya1.8 Mya23.5 Mya274 ka

10 occurrences of Bagre 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

8 formations

Urumaco — 11.25°N, 70.28°WUrumaco — 11.22°N, 70.24°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.80°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WPungo River — 35.40°N, 76.80°WCerro Negro — 10.82°N, 64.18°WSan Gregorio — 11.30°N, 70.24°WCastillo — 10.37°N, 70.07°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°W

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

Bagre and its relatives

Miocene

Where Bagre and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

809 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Bagre, 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

6 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 Bagre

Credit
Gdr
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
Bagre marinus · TCWC:Ichthyology:322.07

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 itAriidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mitchill 1815