Lepomis microlophus

The redear sunfish, also known as the shellcracker, Georgia bream, cherry gill, chinquapin, stumpknocker, and sun perch, is a freshwater fish in the family Centrarchidae and is native to the southeastern United States. Due to its popularity as a sport fish, it has been widely introduced across North America.

Lepomis microlophus

USFWS Mountain Prairie · Public Domain · 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
LepomisPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 12.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 16.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 7 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 7 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 7 occurrencesPleistocene17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–2.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.2–1.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.7–1.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.1–560 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence560 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences12.5 Mya11.7 ka16.8 Mya0 Mya

7 occurrences of Lepomis microlophus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

7 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

Bermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WValentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WFort Thompson — 27.80°N, 82.80°W

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The named rock units Lepomis microlophus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lepomis microlophus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Lepomis microlophus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

391 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Lepomis microlophus, 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

6 references

Each of the 7 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 Lepomis microlophus

Credit
USFWS Mountain Prairie
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lepomis microlophus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itLepomis through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lee 1980