Lestidiops
Lestidiops is a genus of barracudinas.

Rjones99 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
- ParalepididaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Aulopiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Aulopiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Aulopiformes
Time the record covers
At least 2.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 1.8 Mya.
14 occurrences of Lestidiops on record. 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
14 occurrences- Miocene64%
- Pliocene22%
- Pleistocene13%
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 the same rock
166 taxa- Bregmaceros albyi10 sites
- Maurolicus muelleri10 sites
- Lampanyctus8 sites
- Lampanyctus licatae8 sites
- Lampanyctus ecnomi7 sites
- Myctophum columnae7 sites
- Myctophum dorsale7 sites
- Diaphus edwardsi6 sites
- Diaphus larteti6 sites
- Diaphus microsomus6 sites
- Diaphus vexillifer6 sites
- Paralepis albyi6 sites
- Syngnathus albyi6 sites
- Trachurus6 sites
- Belone5 sites
- Capros aper5 sites
- Merluccius5 sites
- Myctophum5 sites
- Solea5 sites
- Alosa elongata4 sites
- Centriscus4 sites
- Gadiculus4 sites
- Lepidopus albyi4 sites
- Micromesistius poutassou4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Lestidiops, 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
7 references- Messinian marine fish communities of the Mediterranean Sea5
- Données récentes sur Les téléostéens du Miocène et du Pliocéne d'Italie3
- Biogeography and climatology of Pliocene and Messinian fossil fish of eastern-central Italy2
- Biogeographic and palaeoclimatic relationships of the Middle Pliocene ichthyofauna of the Samoggia Torrent (Bologna, Italy)1
- I pesci fossili del Miocene superiore di Montefiore conca e Mondaino (Forli)1
- Second record of Tursiops osennae (Cetacea: Delphinidae) in a Pliocene horizon of the Romagna Apennines, Central Italy, and the phylogeny of Tursiops1
- Synopsis des poissons tertiaires de Licata1
Each of the 14 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 Lestidiops
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Rjones99
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lestidiops 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Lestidiops”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itParalepididae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.