Lepidion lepidion

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
- LepidionPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Gadiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Gadiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gadiformes
Time the record covers
At most 2.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 129 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Lepidion lepidion on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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- Pleistocene100%
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.
Lepidion lepidion and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Lepidion lepidion and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Benthosema glaciale2 sites
- Ceratoscopelus maderensis2 sites
- Coelorinchus stellaris2 sites
- Coryphaenoides guentheri2 sites
- Coryphaenoides rupestris2 sites
- Diaphus taaningi2 sites
- Electrona rissoi2 sites
- Hygophum benoiti2 sites
- Hygophum hygomi2 sites
- Laemonema2 sites
- Lobianchia dofleini2 sites
- Myctophum punctatum2 sites
- Notoscopelus elongatus2 sites
- Phycis2 sites
- Scopelopsis pliocenicus2 sites
- Symbolophorus veranyi2 sites
- Alepocephalus1 site
- Bathylagus euryops1 site
- Bathypterois1 site
- Bellotia apoda1 site
- Chauliodus sloani1 site
- Coelorinchus coelorhincus1 site
- Diaphus holti1 site
- Diaphus rafinesqui1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Lepidion lepidion, 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
Media content1

Picture of Lepidion lepidion
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Lepidion lepidion 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLepidion through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Risso 1810)