Lepthoplites
No picture of Lepthoplites was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Lepthoplites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnahoplitinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 5.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 106.3 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Lepthoplites on record, most of them in the Early 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
6 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
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The named rock units Lepthoplites 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.
Lepthoplites and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Lepthoplites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Callihoplites2 sites
- Cyclothyris2 sites
- Stoliczkaia (Stoliczkaia) notha2 sites
- Anisoceras1 site
- Anisoceras armatum1 site
- Anisoceras perarmatum1 site
- Arcoidea1 site
- Arrhaphoceras1 site
- Arrhaphoceras (Arrhaphoceras) subtetragonum1 site
- Beudanticeras beudanti1 site
- Boubeithyris boubei1 site
- Burrirhynchia sigma1 site
- Callihoplites dorsetensis1 site
- Cantabrigites cantabrigense1 site
- Capillithyris capillata1 site
- Cardita1 site
- Catopygus1 site
- Chlamys1 site
- Desmoceras (Desmoceras) latidorsatum1 site
- Discohoplites1 site
- Discoides1 site
- Durnovarites1 site
- Entolium orbiculare1 site
- Epihoplites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Lepthoplites, 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- A correlation of the uppermost Albian and the Cenomanian of South-West England2
- Late Albian ammonites from the Aitamir Formation (Koppeh Dagh, northeast Iran)1
- The upper Albian and lower Cenomanian succession at Kolbay, eastern Mangyshlak (southwest Kazakhstan)1
- Latest Albian (Vraconian) brachiopod fauna from North Dobrogea (Romania): taxonomy, palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography1
- Les grès verts helvétiques (Aptien moyen-Albien supérieur) de Haute-Savoie, Valais et Vaud (Alpes occidentales franco-suisses)1
Each of the 6 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 content0
No picture of Lepthoplites was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Lepthoplites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAnahoplitinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.