Lithiopedalion sp.
No picture of Lithiopedalion sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Lithiopedalion sp. 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 most 8.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 192.9 Mya and 184.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Lithiopedalion sp. on record, most of them in the Early 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- Early Jurassic100%
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.
Lithiopedalion sp. and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Lithiopedalion sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Cochlearites3 sites
- Gervilleioperna3 sites
- Lithiopedalion scutatus2 sites
- Megalodontidae2 sites
- Mytilus2 sites
- Aeolissacus sp.1 site
- Astarte1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Gervilleioperna timorensis1 site
- Glomospira1 site
- Haurania1 site
- Hesperithyris renierii1 site
- Isognomon1 site
- Labyrinthina1 site
- Lithiotis1 site
- Lithiotis problematica1 site
- Lituosepta1 site
- Lychnothyris rotzoana1 site
- Manticula problematica1 site
- Ophthalmidium1 site
- Opisoma1 site
- Opisoma excavatum1 site
- Orbitopsella1 site
- Pachyrisma (Pachymegalodon)1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Lithiopedalion sp., 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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Lithiopedalion sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Lithiopedalion sp. 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 Lithiopedalion sp. 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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What may have been alongside itFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.