Lepidochitona

Lepidochitona is a genus of chitons. It has been included in the families Tonicellidae, Ischnochitonidae, and Lepidochitonidae.

Lepidochitona

Genet · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
LepidochitoninaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Polyplacophora
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Polyplacophora
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Polyplacophora
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Polyplacophora
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Polyplacophora

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 9 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 9 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 9 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 9 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 9 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 9 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.9–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence48.07 Mya129 ka57 Mya0 Mya

9 occurrences of Lepidochitona on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

9 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

5 formations

Kincses — 47.36°N, 18.38°ELincoln Creek — 46.85°N, 123.25°WLincoln Creek — 46.96°N, 123.28°WSabbie di Altavilla — 38.05°N, 13.55°ECrescent — 47.99°N, 123.14°WQuaternary terrace — 33.71°N, 118.29°W

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The named rock units Lepidochitona has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Lepidochitona and its relatives

Eocene

Where Lepidochitona and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

34 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Lepidochitona, 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

4 references

Each of the 9 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 Lepidochitona

Credit
Genet
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lepidochitona 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.

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 itLepidochitoninae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1821