Labrodon

Labrodon

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LabridaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 774 ka.

Eocene — about 1 of 39 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 39 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 31 of 39 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 39 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 39 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.0–7.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.7–6.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.4–5.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.2–3.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.9–2.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.3–35 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33.9 Mya2.58 Mya38.4 Mya35 ka

39 occurrences of Labrodon on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

39 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

15 formations

Jaffna — 8.28°N, 79.82°ECalcarenites of Sant Elm — 39.92°N, 3.06°ELagos-Portimão — 37.08°N, 8.28°WLagos-Portimão — 37.08°N, 8.67°WJaffna Limestone — 8.26°N, 79.84°EBahía Inglesa — 27.04°S, 70.81°WBahía Inglesa — 27.16°S, 70.89°WBatesford Limestone — 38.09°S, 144.28°EBolognano — 42.24°N, 14.04°ECoosawatchie — 33.10°N, 80.40°WGaiman — 43.28°S, 65.45°WLangental Beds — 27.40°S, 15.41°ERío Banano — 9.92°N, 83.55°WBlack Rock Sandstone — 37.98°S, 145.05°EThomas — 43.20°S, 171.70°EPort Campbell Limestone — 38.34°S, 141.61°EPietra Leccese — 40.33°N, 18.19°E

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The named rock units Labrodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Labrodon and its relatives

Miocene

Where Labrodon and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

537 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Labrodon, 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

26 references

Each of the 39 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. 14 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 content1

Picture of Labrodon

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Gervais 1857