Luenchelys minimus
No picture of Luenchelys minimus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Luenchelys minimus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LuenchelysPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Anguilliformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Anguilliformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Anguilliformes
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Luenchelys minimus on record, most of them in the Late 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
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
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The named rock units Luenchelys minimus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Luenchelys minimus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Luenchelys minimus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Abisaadia hakelensis1 site
- Abisaadichthys libanicus1 site
- Anguillavus mazeni1 site
- Anguillavus quadripinnis1 site
- Apateopholis laniatus1 site
- Armigatus alticorpus1 site
- Armigatus namourensis1 site
- Belonostomus1 site
- Ctenodentelops striatus1 site
- Cyclobatis oligodactylus1 site
- Enchodus mecoanalis1 site
- Eubiodectes libanicus1 site
- Eurypholis boissieri1 site
- Freigichthys elleipsis1 site
- Gaudryella gaudryi1 site
- Gigapteryx tethyestris1 site
- Hastichthys gracilis1 site
- Hayenchelys germanus1 site
- Lebonichthys namourensis1 site
- Nematonotus bottae1 site
- Nursallia tethysensis1 site
- Ornategulum sardinioides1 site
- Paracentrus lebanonensis1 site
- Proscinetes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Luenchelys minimus, 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- Les premiers Anguilliformes : I. Révision des genres cénomaniens Anguillavus Hay, 1903 et Luenchelys nov. gen2
- Fossil fishes from the Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Namoura, Lebanon1
Each of the 3 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
Media content0
No picture of Luenchelys minimus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Luenchelys minimus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Luenchelys minimus 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 itLuenchelys through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Belouze et al. 2003