Laocoetis fittoni

Laocoetis fittoni

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LaocoetisPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida

Time the record covers

At least 60 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 16 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 14 of 16 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 16 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 1 occurrence99–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 2 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 2 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences132.6 Mya72.2 Mya138 Mya65 Mya

16 occurrences of Laocoetis fittoni on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

16 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

Ilsenburg — 51.90°N, 10.67°EWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 51.58°N, 1.47°WRed Chalk — 52.95°N, 0.50°ENeuburger Weiß — 48.73°N, 11.18°ECraie Chloritée — 49.43°N, 0.23°EUpper Chalk — 50.60°N, 1.20°W

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The named rock units Laocoetis fittoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Laocoetis fittoni and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Laocoetis fittoni and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

149 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Laocoetis fittoni, 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

10 references

Each of the 16 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 Laocoetis fittoni

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

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

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What may have been alongside itLaocoetis through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mantell 1822)