Latidae

The Latidae, known as the lates perches, are a family of perch-like fish found in Africa, Asia, and the Indian and western Pacific Oceans. Including about 13 species, the family, previously classified subfamily Latinae in family Centropomidae, was raised to family status in 2004 after a cladistic analysis showed the original Centropomidae were paraphyletic.

Latidae

Nick Thorne at English Wikipedia · CC BY 2.5 · 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
PerciformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Perciformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Perciformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Perciformes

Time the record covers

At least 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 4 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 4 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 4 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66 Mya27.3 Mya73 Mya22 Mya

4 occurrences of Latidae 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

4 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

3 formations

El Molino — 17.69°S, 65.94°WMuñani — 15.73°S, 70.17°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°E

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The named rock units Latidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Latidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Latidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

314 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Latidae, 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

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 Latidae

Credit
Nick Thorne at English Wikipedia
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Latidae 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 itPerciformes through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.