Lampanyctus ritteri
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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 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 129 ka.
2 occurrences of Lampanyctus ritteri on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
2 occurrences- Pliocene50%
- Pleistocene50%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Lampanyctus ritteri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Benthosema2 sites
- Ceratoscopelus townsendi2 sites
- Diaphus theta2 sites
- Lampanyctus regalis2 sites
- Stenobrachius leucopsarus2 sites
- Tarletonbeania crenularis2 sites
- Triphoturus mexicanus2 sites
- Acirsella effiae1 site
- Asperiscala bellastriata1 site
- Asperiscala minuticosta1 site
- Cancer chaneyi1 site
- Cancer productus1 site
- Electrona rissoi1 site
- Glebocarcinus amphioetus1 site
- Hirtoscala catalinae1 site
- Hirtoscala sawinae1 site
- Hirtoscala tincta1 site
- Kelletia kanakoffi1 site
- Lampadena urophaos1 site
- Metacarcinus gracilis1 site
- Myctophum nitidulum1 site
- Neadmete sutherlandi1 site
- Nitidiscala californica1 site
- Nitidiscala catalinense1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Lampanyctus ritteri, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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
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No picture of Lampanyctus ritteri was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 ritteri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lampanyctus ritteri 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.
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 timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gilbert 1915)