Labridae

The wrasses are a family, Labridae, of marine ray-finned fish, many of which are brightly colored. The family is large and diverse, with over 600 species in 81 genera, which are divided into eight subfamilies.

Labridae

Olivier Dugornay · CC BY 4.0 · 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
LabriformesPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 182 occurrencesEocene — about 44 of 182 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 182 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 81 of 182 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 13 of 182 occurrencesPleistocene — about 24 of 182 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–53 Mya — about 3 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 3 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 3 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 4 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 6 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 6 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 6 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 4 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–30 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 6 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 8 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 13 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 14 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 9 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 8 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 13 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 10 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 7 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 37 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

182 occurrences of Labridae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

182 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

53 formations

Selsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WBahía Inglesa — 27.04°S, 70.81°WBahía Inglesa — 27.17°S, 70.87°WElmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WAmeki — 5.00°N, 7.50°EAmeki — 5.56°N, 7.52°EPalos Verdes Sand — 33.76°N, 118.29°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.90°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WCalvert — 37.93°N, 77.51°WCalvert — 37.54°N, 77.44°WCalvert — 38.16°N, 76.83°WCalcarenites of Sant Elm — 39.92°N, 3.06°ERaz-el-Ain — 35.71°N, 0.64°WJaffna — 8.28°N, 79.82°ELa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.60°WHrušky — 48.81°N, 16.63°ELondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLeitha — 47.80°N, 16.63°ELagos-Portimão — 37.08°N, 8.28°WLagos-Portimão — 37.08°N, 8.67°WEarnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°WSan Mateo — 33.20°N, 117.37°WJaffna Limestone — 8.26°N, 79.84°EBolognano — 42.24°N, 14.04°ETamiami — 27.34°N, 82.51°WBlack Rock Sandstone — 37.98°S, 145.05°EBlack Rock Sandstone — 37.99°S, 145.04°ETimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WUmm al-Rua’us — 26.43°N, 50.11°ELoxton — 34.15°S, 139.91°EBatesford Limestone — 38.09°S, 144.28°E

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The named rock units Labridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 71 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Labridae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Labridae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,962 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 122 sites for Labridae, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

97 references

Each of the 182 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. 85 further references are 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 content2

Picture of Labridae

Credit
Olivier Dugornay
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Cuvier 1816