Lates

Lates is a genus of freshwater and euryhaline lates perches belonging to the family Latidae. The generic name is also used as a common name, lates, for many of the species.

Lates

NasserHalaweh · CC BY-SA 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
Also called
latesPBDB
Sits inside
CentropomidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 2 of 118 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 118 occurrencesMiocene — about 45 of 118 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 34 of 118 occurrencesPleistocene — about 31 of 118 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.8–8.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.4–7.0 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.0–5.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences5.6–4.2 Mya — about 14 occurrences4.2–2.8 Mya — about 17 occurrences2.8–1.4 Mya — about 19 occurrences1.4–0 Mya — about 21 occurrences33.9 Mya11.7 ka41.9 Mya0 Mya

118 occurrences of Lates 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

118 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

22 formations

Koobi Fora — 4.30°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 4.24°N, 36.26°EKoobi Fora — 4.29°N, 36.23°EKoobi Fora — 3.77°N, 36.44°EKoobi Fora — 3.78°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 3.59°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.87°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 4.18°N, 36.42°ENkondo — 1.50°N, 31.00°EWarwire — 1.50°N, 31.00°ENyaburogo — 1.00°N, 30.50°EOluka — 1.00°N, 30.50°EBeglia — 34.00°N, 8.00°EBeglia — 34.33°N, 8.41°EBeglia — 34.20°N, 8.70°ENyakabingo — 1.00°N, 30.50°ENyabusosi — 1.00°N, 30.50°EWembere-Manonga — 3.92°S, 33.88°EWembere-Manonga — 3.90°S, 33.82°EWembere-Manonga — 3.98°S, 33.93°EGabal Silsila — 24.43°N, 32.95°EGabal Silsila — 24.77°N, 32.95°EKaiso Village — 1.50°N, 31.00°ENachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°ELusso Beds — 0.03°N, 29.62°EDam — 25.98°N, 49.39°EMuluk — 30.42°N, 30.25°ENawata — 2.90°N, 36.05°ENawata or Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EIdam Unit — 25.71°N, 18.18°EStudienka — 48.20°N, 17.98°EMoghara — 30.38°N, 28.82°EKuyal'nikian — 46.46°N, 30.73°EMaradah — 28.58°N, 19.90°E

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The named rock units Lates has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lates and its relatives

Miocene

Where Lates and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

808 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 114 sites for Lates, 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

48 references

Each of the 118 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. 36 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 Lates

Credit
NasserHalaweh
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lates was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cuvier 1828