Legnonotus obtusus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LegnonotusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 2.5 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 239.48 Mya and 237 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Legnonotus obtusus on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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
1 occurrences- Middle Triassic100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Legnonotus obtusus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Legnonotus obtusus and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Legnonotus obtusus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Archaeosemionotus1 site
- Caelatichthys nitens1 site
- Daninia spinosa1 site
- Dipteronotus olgiatii1 site
- Eoeugnathus bellottii1 site
- Lariosaurus1 site
- Lariosaurus valceresii1 site
- Neusticosaurus edwardsii1 site
- Peltopleurus nuptialis1 site
- Perleidus altolepis1 site
- Prohalecites1 site
- Prohalecites porroi1 site
- Sangiorgioichthys aldae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Legnonotus obtusus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
Media content1

Picture of Legnonotus obtusus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Legnonotus obtusus 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 itLegnonotus through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tintori and Renesto 1983