Lopatinia

No picture of Lopatinia 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 Lopatinia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CucullaeidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Arcoidea
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Arcoidea
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Arcoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Cucullaeidae

Time the record covers

At least 54 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 19 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 18 of 19 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 19 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 19 occurrencesLate Cretaceous163–161 Mya — about 3 occurrences161–158 Mya — about 6 occurrences158–156 Mya — about 6 occurrences156–153 Mya — about 3 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154.8 Mya100.5 Mya163 Mya93 Mya

19 occurrences of Lopatinia 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

19 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

Kap Leslie — 70.48°N, 21.97°WDorozhkovo — 70.12°N, 86.75°E

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

Lopatinia and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Lopatinia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

41 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Lopatinia, 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

2 references

Each of the 19 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 Lopatinia 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 Lopatinia, 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. Schmidt 1872