Ceratoscopelus townsendi

No picture of Ceratoscopelus townsendi was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ceratoscopelus townsendi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
dogtooth lampfishPBDB
Sits inside
CeratoscopelusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Myctophiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Myctophiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Myctophiformes

Time the record covers

At least 1.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Pliocene — about 8 of 12 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 4 of 12 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 12 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.4–3.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.3–3.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.1–3.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.0–2.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.9–2.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.7–2.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.2–2.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.0–1.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.1–957 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences957 ka–820 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences820 ka–683 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences683 ka–547 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences547 ka–410 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences410 ka–273 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences273 ka–137 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences137 ka–0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.58 Mya774 ka4.1 Mya0 Mya

12 occurrences of Ceratoscopelus townsendi on record. 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

12 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

6 formations

Shinzato — 26.36°N, 127.98°EShinzato — 26.38°N, 127.86°EShinzato — 26.32°N, 127.96°ENobori — 33.37°N, 134.06°ETimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WPico — 33.59°N, 117.85°WPico — 34.05°N, 118.24°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WSan Diego — 32.90°N, 117.10°W

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The named rock units Ceratoscopelus townsendi 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.

Found in the same rock

165 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Ceratoscopelus townsendi, 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

3 references

Each of the 12 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 content0

No picture of Ceratoscopelus townsendi was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ceratoscopelus townsendi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ceratoscopelus townsendi 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCeratoscopelus through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Eigenmann and Eigenmann 1889)