Notoscopelus resplendens

Notoscopelus resplendens, commonly known as the patchwork lampfish or patchwork lanternfish, is a species of lanternfish in the family Myctophidae. It is found in the eastern and western Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean and parts of the Pacific Ocean. It spends the daylight hours in deep water, rising at night to near the surface. This fish was first described by the Scottish naturalist and arctic explorer John Richardson in 1845.

Notoscopelus resplendens

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NotoscopelusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Myctophiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Myctophiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Myctophiformes

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.9 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 18.7 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 15 of 28 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 28 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 5 of 28 occurrencesPleistocene19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.6–9.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.0–8.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.3–7.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.8–5.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.1–4.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.5–3.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.8–3.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.2–2.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.6–1.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.9–1.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.3–640 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences640 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences15.9 Mya774 ka19.2 Mya0 Mya

28 occurrences of Notoscopelus resplendens on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

28 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

9 formations

Bells Creek Mudstone — 41.34°S, 175.46°ECalamity Point Sandstone — 46.03°S, 167.71°ERifle Butts — 45.13°S, 170.97°ELomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WSan Diego — 32.90°N, 117.10°WSant’Agata Fossili — 45.07°N, 7.94°EMiyata — 35.19°N, 39.65°EGutingkeng — 22.84°N, 120.41°EArgille Azzurre — 43.31°N, 11.49°E

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The named rock units Notoscopelus resplendens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Notoscopelus resplendens and its relatives

Miocene

Where Notoscopelus resplendens and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

585 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Notoscopelus resplendens, 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

12 references

Each of the 28 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 Notoscopelus resplendens

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nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
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No 3D scan of Notoscopelus resplendens was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itNotoscopelus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Richardson 1845)