Lampanyctus nobilis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LampanyctusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Myctophiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Myctophiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Myctophiformes
Time the record covers
At most 2.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Lampanyctus nobilis on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
4 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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
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The named rock units Lampanyctus nobilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lampanyctus nobilis and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Lampanyctus nobilis and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Diaphus chrysorhynchus3 sites
- Lobianchia gemellari3 sites
- Benthosema pterotum2 sites
- Ceratoscopelus townsendi2 sites
- Diaphus problematicus2 sites
- Diaphus aequalis1 site
- Diaphus apalus1 site
- Diaphus barrigonensis1 site
- Diaphus brachycephalus1 site
- Diaphus capax1 site
- Diaphus depressifrons1 site
- Diaphus dumerilii1 site
- Diaphus hataii1 site
- Diaphus mollis1 site
- Diaphus nafpaktitisi1 site
- Diaphus perspicillatus1 site
- Hygophum macrochir1 site
- Hygophum proximum1 site
- Hygophum taaningi1 site
- Lampadena dea1 site
- Lampanyctus alatus1 site
- Lepidophanes inflectus1 site
- Myctophum evermanni1 site
- Myctophum jacksoni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Lampanyctus nobilis, 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- Lanternfish otoliths (Teleostei, Myctophidae) from the Pliocene and Pleistocene of Japan3
- Otoliths of the Myctophidae from the Neogene of tropical America1
Each of the 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Lampanyctus nobilis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access 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 Lampanyctus nobilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lampanyctus nobilis 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.
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What may have been alongside itLampanyctus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Taning 1928)