Lepisosteus indicus

Lepisosteus indicus

Liam Wolff · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
LepisosteusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Lepisosteiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Lepisosteiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Lepisosteiformes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Lepisosteiformes

Time the record covers

At most 6.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 10 of 10 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 10 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences71–71 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences71–71 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences71–71 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences72.7 Mya65.5 Mya

10 occurrences of Lepisosteus indicus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

10 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

4 formations

Lameta — 20.35°N, 79.05°ELameta — 21.18°N, 80.37°ELameta — 23.17°N, 79.95°EFatehgarh — 26.43°N, 71.21°ETakli — 21.15°N, 79.10°EInfratrappean Beds — 17.35°N, 77.70°E

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The named rock units Lepisosteus indicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lepisosteus indicus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Lepisosteus indicus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

159 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Lepisosteus indicus, 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

5 references

Each of the 10 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 Lepisosteus indicus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Liam Wolff
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Lepisosteus indicus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itLepisosteus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lydekker 1890)