Lithatractus

No picture of Lithatractus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Lithatractus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpumellariaPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 55 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 29 of 55 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 25 of 55 occurrencesPaleocene127–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 1 occurrence91–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence89–87 Mya — about 3 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 5 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 6 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 3 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 3 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 8 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 13 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 5 occurrences121.4 Mya66 Mya127 Mya60 Mya

55 occurrences of Lithatractus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

55 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

8 formations

Mead Hill — 41.92°S, 174.07°EUrakawa — 42.17°N, 142.82°ELower Kanguk — 78.18°N, 99.77°WMaiolica — 43.35°N, 12.71°EKirsanovskaya — 52.55°N, 42.57°ERegosawa — 44.87°N, 142.28°EA — 44.98°N, 142.27°EB — 44.98°N, 142.27°E

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The named rock units Lithatractus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lithatractus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Lithatractus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

241 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Lithatractus, 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

Each of the 55 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 Lithatractus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Lithatractus, 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.