Lampanyctus

Lampanyctus is a genus of lanternfishes.

Lampanyctus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LampanyctinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Myctophiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Myctophiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Myctophiformes

Time the record covers

At least 26 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 0 of 129 occurrencesOligocene — about 2 of 129 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 97 of 129 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 15 of 129 occurrencesPleistocene — about 14 of 129 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 7 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 7 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 7 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 13 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 30 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 14 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 9 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences27.3 Mya774 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

129 occurrences of Lampanyctus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

129 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

22 formations

Modelo — 34.13°N, 118.48°WModelo — 34.15°N, 118.47°WModelo — 34.13°N, 118.42°WNavidad — 33.90°S, 71.84°WLindos Bay — 36.09°N, 28.01°ELindos Bay — 36.26°N, 28.17°ELindos Bay — 36.36°N, 28.21°ECubagua — 10.59°N, 64.24°WQuinfangondo — 9.02°S, 13.30°ENobori — 33.37°N, 134.06°EWaioha Shellbeds — 34.50°S, 172.96°ELomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WPico — 33.59°N, 117.85°WSant’Agata Fossili — 45.07°N, 7.94°ESant’Agata Fossili — 45.07°N, 7.97°ELacui — 42.69°S, 74.12°WValmonte — 33.78°N, 118.33°WMonterey — 34.61°N, 120.44°WRaz-el-Ain — 35.71°N, 0.64°WPakaurangi — 36.24°S, 174.28°EHukatere Sandstone — 36.23°S, 174.29°EMount Harris — 45.15°S, 170.93°EMandorové — 0.73°S, 8.89°EYonabaru — 26.19°N, 127.75°EHijikata — 34.65°N, 138.04°EMiyata — 35.19°N, 39.65°EGutingkeng — 22.84°N, 120.41°E

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The named rock units Lampanyctus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 86 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lampanyctus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Lampanyctus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

971 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 84 sites for Lampanyctus, 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

35 references

Each of the 129 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. 23 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 Lampanyctus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lampanyctus was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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. (Bonaparte 1840)