Lonchidiidae

Lonchidiidae

Rees, J. · 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
HybodontiformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 234 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 315.2 Mya to 66 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 283 occurrencesPermian — about 2 of 283 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 283 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 283 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 16 of 283 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 5 of 283 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 5 of 283 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 8 of 283 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 142 of 283 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 102 of 283 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 283 occurrences320–312 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences312–303 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences268–260 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences260–251 Mya — about 2 occurrences251–242 Mya — about 2 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 1 occurrence234–225 Mya — about 4 occurrences225–217 Mya — about 5 occurrences217–208 Mya — about 5 occurrences208–199 Mya — about 2 occurrences199–191 Mya — about 2 occurrences191–182 Mya — about 2 occurrences182–173 Mya — about 1 occurrence173–165 Mya — about 4 occurrences165–156 Mya — about 1 occurrence156–147 Mya — about 3 occurrences147–139 Mya — about 25 occurrences139–130 Mya — about 50 occurrences130–121 Mya — about 26 occurrences121–113 Mya — about 28 occurrences113–104 Mya — about 12 occurrences104–96 Mya — about 6 occurrences96–87 Mya — about 1 occurrence87–78 Mya — about 27 occurrences78–70 Mya — about 43 occurrences70–61 Mya — about 30 occurrences307 Mya72.2 Mya320 Mya61 Mya

283 occurrences of Lonchidiidae on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

283 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

69 formations

Durlston — 50.60°N, 1.95°WDurlston — 50.62°N, 2.25°WHell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WHell Creek — 46.03°N, 103.77°WHell Creek — 46.38°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 45.95°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 46.41°N, 103.94°WHell Creek — 46.10°N, 103.30°WHell Creek — 46.46°N, 104.02°WHell Creek — 46.33°N, 103.90°WHell Creek — 47.55°N, 107.13°WHell Creek — 47.57°N, 107.10°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.40°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 107.18°WHell Creek — 47.07°N, 106.92°WHell Creek — 47.53°N, 106.88°WHell Creek — 46.90°N, 101.50°WHell Creek — 46.21°N, 103.77°WHell Creek — 45.66°N, 105.08°WHell Creek — 45.50°N, 103.10°WHell Creek — 45.64°N, 103.49°WHell Creek — 45.00°N, 103.19°WHell Creek — 47.61°N, 106.90°WHell Creek — 45.05°N, 101.97°WMesaverde — 42.85°N, 107.28°WMesaverde — 44.08°N, 107.73°WMesaverde — 44.10°N, 107.75°WMesaverde — 44.17°N, 107.81°WAguja — 29.32°N, 103.52°WAguja — 29.10°N, 103.17°WAguja — 29.30°N, 103.57°WAguja — 29.46°N, 103.56°WLance — 43.12°N, 104.64°WLance — 41.57°N, 108.67°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.57°WLance — 43.13°N, 104.49°WLance — 43.20°N, 104.47°WLance — 43.80°N, 104.62°WLance — 43.00°N, 104.50°WHythe — 51.24°N, 0.05°WHythe — 51.24°N, 0.10°WChinle — 34.44°N, 109.46°WChinle — 34.95°N, 109.76°WChinle — 34.68°N, 109.58°WChinle — 36.33°N, 106.47°WAnnero — 59.31°N, 18.07°EAtherfield Clay — 50.62°N, 1.34°WAtherfield Clay — 51.23°N, 0.25°WPaluxy — 32.00°N, 98.25°WPaluxy — 32.22°N, 98.20°WPaluxy — 32.95°N, 97.69°WPaluxy — 32.36°N, 97.99°WTecovas — 33.45°N, 101.17°WTecovas — 33.42°N, 101.15°WFerris — 41.94°N, 106.88°WFerris — 41.80°N, 107.00°WCloverly — 44.65°N, 107.88°WCloverly — 44.51°N, 107.90°WCloverly — 44.50°N, 107.82°WFruitland — 36.49°N, 108.51°WFruitland — 36.27°N, 108.26°WEl Castellar — 40.65°N, 0.89°WEl Castellar — 40.67°N, 0.67°WSao Khua — 11.56°N, 102.59°ESao Khua — 17.10°N, 102.49°EMilk River — 49.10°N, 111.80°WKsar Metlili — 32.70°N, 3.22°WAïn el Guettar — 32.66°N, 10.21°EWoburn Sands — 52.03°N, 0.40°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WTwin Mountains — 32.27°N, 97.91°WAntlers — 33.28°N, 97.62°WAntlers — 33.50°N, 97.58°WAntlers — 34.15°N, 95.82°WArtoles — 40.82°N, 0.28°W

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The named rock units Lonchidiidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 45 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lonchidiidae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Lonchidiidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,429 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 201 sites for Lonchidiidae, 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

106 references

Each of the 283 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. 94 further references are not listed. 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 Lonchidiidae

Credit
Rees, J.
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lonchidiidae 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. Herman 1977