Linichnus

No picture of Linichnus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Linichnus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 5 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.4–4.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.9–2.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.5–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence66 Mya11.7 ka74 Mya0 Mya

5 occurrences of Linichnus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

5 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

2 formations

Ménaka — 18.33°N, 2.00°EHuelva — 37.27°N, 6.95°W

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The named rock units Linichnus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Linichnus and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Linichnus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

21 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Linichnus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

4 references

Each of the 5 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 Linichnus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Linichnus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Linichnus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jacobsen and Bromley 2009