Lepidosiren paradoxa

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
South American lungfishPBDB
Sits inside
LepidosirenPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ceratodontiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Ceratodontiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ceratodontiformes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Lepidosirenidae

Time the record covers

At least 52 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 13.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 11 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 24 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 24 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 24 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 24 occurrencesMiocene — about 19 of 24 occurrencesMiocene73–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–56 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 13 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 6 occurrences66 Mya13.8 Mya73 Mya10 Mya

24 occurrences of Lepidosiren paradoxa on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

24 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

La Victoria — 3.30°N, 75.14°WLa Victoria — 3.24°N, 75.13°WLa Victoria — 3.31°N, 75.17°WVillavieja — 3.24°N, 75.17°WVillavieja — 3.26°N, 75.19°WVillavieja — 3.23°N, 75.14°WMuñani — 15.73°S, 70.17°WEl Molino — 17.69°S, 65.94°WSanta Lucía — 18.03°S, 65.58°WLumbrera — 23.22°S, 65.68°W

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

Lepidosiren paradoxa and its relatives

Miocene

Where Lepidosiren paradoxa and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

91 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Lepidosiren paradoxa, 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

6 references

Each of the 24 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 content2

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Lepidosiren paradoxa · TCWC:Ichthyology:16678.1

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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No picture of Lepidosiren paradoxa was found. iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Lepidosiren paradoxa itself, so it was not used.

Wikidata did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Lepidosiren paradoxa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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

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What may have been alongside itLepidosiren through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fitzinger 1837