Apateopholis laniatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ApateopholisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Aulopiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Aulopiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Aulopiformes
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Apateopholis laniatus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Apateopholis laniatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Apateopholis laniatus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Apateopholis laniatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
48 taxa- Aipichthys minor1 site
- Aipichthys velifer1 site
- Aphanepygus dorsalis1 site
- Armigatus alticorpus1 site
- Armigatus namourensis1 site
- Belonostomus1 site
- Charitosomus hakelensis1 site
- Coccodus armatus1 site
- Ctenodentelops striatus1 site
- Ctenothrissa vexillifer1 site
- Cyclobatis oligodactylus1 site
- Enchodus mecoanalis1 site
- Eubiodectes libanicus1 site
- Eurypholis boissieri1 site
- Exocoetoides minor1 site
- Exocoetoides tenuis1 site
- Gaudryella gaudryi1 site
- Gigapteryx tethyestris1 site
- Hastichthys gracilis1 site
- Hoplopteryx lewisi1 site
- Ichthyodectes libanicus1 site
- Lebonichthys lewisi1 site
- Lebonichthys namourensis1 site
- Luenchelys minimus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Apateopholis laniatus, 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
2 references- The fossil fishes of the chalk of Mount Lebanon, in Syria2
- Fossil fishes from the Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Namoura, Lebanon1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Apateopholis laniatus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Ghedoghedo
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Apateopholis laniatus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itApateopholis through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Davis 1887)