Labrus

Labrus is a genus of wrasses native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean into the Mediterranean and Black seas.

Labrus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 46 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 129 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 10 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 10 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 10 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences48.07 Mya1.8 Mya57 Mya0 Mya

10 occurrences of Labrus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

2 formations

Earnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°WBuchak — 49.53°N, 39.07°E

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The named rock units Labrus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Labrus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Labrus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

349 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Labrus, 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

7 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 Labrus

Credit
(c) ragnvald, some rights reserved (CC BY)
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Labrus merula · FMNH:Fishes:109161

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itLabridae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758