Lepophidium

Lepophidium is a genus of cusk-eels.

Lepophidium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OphidiidaePBDB
Diet
carnivore, parasitePBDB, for Ophidiiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Ophidiiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ophidiiformes

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 24 occurrencesMiocene — about 17 of 24 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 24 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 4 of 24 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.4–8.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.6–7.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.9–3.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences15.98 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

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

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

7 formations

Navidad — 33.91°S, 71.84°WNavidad — 33.95°S, 71.87°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.84°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.76°N, 118.28°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WLacui — 41.75°S, 73.84°WLacui — 42.69°S, 74.12°WOnzole — 0.87°N, 79.89°WChagres Sandstone — 9.28°N, 80.05°W

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The named rock units Lepophidium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lepophidium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Lepophidium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

606 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Lepophidium, 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

8 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 content1

Picture of Lepophidium

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lepophidium 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.