Erimyzon sucetta
The lake chubsucker is a species of freshwater fish endemic to North America, found in the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River basin, as far north as Ontario, Canada, extending south to the Gulf of Mexico. It is mainly found in lakes, ponds, and swamps, rarely in streams.

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Time the record covers
At least 762 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.
4 occurrences of Erimyzon sucetta 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
4 occurrences- Pleistocene50%
- Holocene50%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Erimyzon sucetta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Erimyzon sucetta and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Erimyzon sucetta and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
151 taxa- Alligator mississippiensis4 sites
- Amia calva4 sites
- Esox4 sites
- Lepisosteus4 sites
- Lepomis4 sites
- Pomoxis4 sites
- Agkistrodon3 sites
- Ameiurus3 sites
- Archosargus probatocephalus3 sites
- Bufo3 sites
- Chelydra serpentina3 sites
- Kinosternon3 sites
- Lepomis microlophus3 sites
- Mugil3 sites
- Nerodia3 sites
- Odocoileus virginianus3 sites
- Rana3 sites
- Siren3 sites
- Amphiuma2 sites
- Crotalus2 sites
- Dasypus bellus2 sites
- Deirochelys reticularia2 sites
- Emydidae2 sites
- Equus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Erimyzon sucetta, 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
4 references- Early Holocene Vertebrate Paleontology1
- Vertebrate Paleontology1
- Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes from the early Pleistocene Leisey Shell Pit local fauna, Hillsborough County, Florida1
- Faunal remanis from Mixon's Hammock, Okefenokee swamp1
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. 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 content1
Picture of Erimyzon sucetta
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Erimyzon sucetta was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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 itFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.