Lonchidion breve

Lonchidion breve

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LonchidionPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 13 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 13 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 13 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 13 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 12 of 13 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 13 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 13 occurrences204–199 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences199–195 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences195–190 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences190–185 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences185–181 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences181–176 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences176–171 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences171–167 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences167–162 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences162–157 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences157–152 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences152–148 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences148–143 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences143–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–134 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences134–129 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences129–124 Mya — about 2 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 5 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 2 occurrences115–110 Mya — about 1 occurrence110–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences132.6 Mya – 119.57 Mya204 Mya63 Mya

13 occurrences of Lonchidion breve 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

13 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

Atherfield Clay — 50.62°N, 1.34°WAtherfield Clay — 51.23°N, 0.25°WHythe — 51.24°N, 0.05°WHythe — 51.24°N, 0.10°WArtoles — 40.82°N, 0.28°WWessex — 50.64°N, 1.41°WWadhurst Clay — 50.86°N, 0.44°EVega de Pas — 43.13°N, 3.78°WWoburn Sands — 52.03°N, 0.40°WSandgate — 51.24°N, 0.15°W

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The named rock units Lonchidion breve 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.

Lonchidion breve and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Lonchidion breve and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

156 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Lonchidion breve, 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

10 references

Each of the 13 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

Media content1

Picture of Lonchidion breve

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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What may have been alongside itLonchidion through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Patterson 1966)