Lanea

Lanea is an extinct conodont genus in the family Spathognathodontidae from the Early Devonian.

A picture published with the record for Lanea. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpathognathodontidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conodonta
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Conodonta
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conodonta
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Conodonta

Time the record covers

At most 27 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Silurian — about 0 of 90 occurrencesDevonian — about 90 of 90 occurrencesDevonian420–419 Mya — about 4 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 10 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 10 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 10 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 10 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 10 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 10 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 8 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences409–408 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences408–407 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences407–407 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences407–406 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences405–404 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences404–403 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences403–402 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences402–401 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences400–399 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences397–397 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences396–395 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences420.1 Mya392.9 Mya

90 occurrences of Lanea on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

90 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

Lochkov — 50.02°N, 14.32°ELa Valute — 46.62°N, 12.88°ERauchkofel — 46.60°N, 12.87°ELa Valute — 46.57°N, 12.12°ELa Valute — 46.58°N, 13.13°ERauchkofel — 46.61°N, 12.94°ERauchkofel — 46.58°N, 13.13°ENölbling — 46.58°N, 13.13°E

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The named rock units Lanea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lanea and its relatives

Devonian

Where Lanea and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

5 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Lanea, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

8 references

Each of the 90 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 content1

Picture of Lanea

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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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What may have been alongside itSpathognathodontidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Murphy and Valenzuela-Rios 1999