Lutjanidae

Lutjanidae, the snappers and fusiliers, are a family of percomorph fishes, mainly marine but with some members inhabiting estuaries and, in some cases, fresh water. The family includes about 113 species. Most species are used for food and many are of high economic importance. Many species around the world are known in local languages as red snapper, including species from different genera

Lutjanidae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 42 occurrencesEocene — about 19 of 42 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 42 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 11 of 42 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 42 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 42 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.7–3.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.8–1.9 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

42 occurrences of Lutjanidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

42 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

18 formations

Elmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.84°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WCantaure — 11.97°N, 70.02°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WLisbon — 31.36°N, 86.52°WAlachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WYazoo — 31.93°N, 91.94°WKempsville — 36.79°N, 76.17°WRosarito Beach — 32.12°N, 116.80°WMonterey — 33.79°N, 117.81°WCaujarao — 11.50°N, 69.51°WCalcaire Grossier — 49.31°N, 2.25°ECatahoula — 31.66°N, 88.66°WChagres — 9.27°N, 80.06°WTallahatta — 31.32°N, 85.72°WHatchetigbee — 31.66°N, 88.09°W

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The named rock units Lutjanidae 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.

Lutjanidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Lutjanidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,092 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Lutjanidae, 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

23 references

Each of the 42 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. 11 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 Lutjanidae

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

No 3D scan of Lutjanidae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gill 1861