Lithacosphinctes janus

No picture of Lithacosphinctes janus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access 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 Lithacosphinctes janus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LithacosphinctesPBDB
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 5.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 157.9 Mya and 152.21 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 4 of 4 occurrencesLate Jurassic158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences158.4 Mya151.7 Mya

4 occurrences of Lithacosphinctes janus on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

4 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

Auquilco — 37.23°S, 70.37°WAuquilco — 37.00°S, 71.00°WAuquilco — 37.45°S, 70.43°WReuchenette — 47.40°N, 7.03°E

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The named rock units Lithacosphinctes janus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Lithacosphinctes janus and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Lithacosphinctes janus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

No other named taxon is catalogued from any of those sites.

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Lithacosphinctes janus, and this reads all of them.

Entered from

3 references

Each of the 4 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 Lithacosphinctes janus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access 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 Lithacosphinctes janus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Lithacosphinctes janus 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itLithacosphinctes through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Choffat 1893)