Lepidotus palliatus

No picture of Lepidotus palliatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access 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 Lepidotus palliatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LepidotesPBDB
Diet
durophage, carnivorePBDB, for Semionotiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Semionotiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Semionotiformes

Time the record covers

At least 6.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 143.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 125.77 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 8 of 9 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 9 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous155–154 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 1 occurrence148–147 Mya — about 1 occurrence147–146 Mya — about 1 occurrence146–145 Mya — about 1 occurrence145–144 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149.2 Mya143.1 Mya155.4 Mya125.2 Mya

9 occurrences of Lepidotus palliatus on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

3 formations

Solnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°EKimmeridge Clay — 48.21°N, 5.14°EKimmeridge Clay — 50.61°N, 2.45°W

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The named rock units Lepidotus palliatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lepidotus palliatus and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Lepidotus palliatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

31 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Lepidotus palliatus, 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

3 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

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No picture of Lepidotus palliatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access 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 Lepidotus palliatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Lepidotus palliatus 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 itLepidotes through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

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