Ceratoscopelus

Ceratoscopelus is a genus of lanternfish.

Ceratoscopelus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 69 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 69 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 69 occurrencesMiocene — about 19 of 69 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 23 of 69 occurrencesPleistocene — about 26 of 69 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.5–7.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.6–5.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 11 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 20 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 19 occurrences48.07 Mya129 ka57 Mya0 Mya

69 occurrences of Ceratoscopelus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

69 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

20 formations

Lindos Bay — 36.09°N, 28.01°ELindos Bay — 36.26°N, 28.17°ELindos Bay — 36.36°N, 28.21°EShinzato — 26.36°N, 127.98°EShinzato — 26.38°N, 127.86°EShinzato — 26.32°N, 127.96°ENobori — 33.37°N, 134.06°ETimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WPico — 33.59°N, 117.85°WPico — 34.05°N, 118.24°WMiyata — 35.19°N, 39.65°EGutingkeng — 22.84°N, 120.41°EYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WCubagua — 11.89°N, 70.04°WBastimentos — 9.32°N, 82.11°WWaioha Shellbeds — 34.50°S, 172.96°EPakaurangi — 36.24°S, 174.28°EHukatere Sandstone — 36.23°S, 174.29°ECalamity Point Sandstone — 46.03°S, 167.71°ELomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WSan Diego — 32.90°N, 117.10°WRanquil — 37.20°S, 73.49°WYokosuka — 35.26°N, 139.72°ELacui — 42.69°S, 74.12°WArgille Azzurre — 43.31°N, 11.49°E

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The named rock units Ceratoscopelus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 39 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ceratoscopelus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Ceratoscopelus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,092 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 64 sites for Ceratoscopelus, 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

28 references

Each of the 69 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. 16 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 Ceratoscopelus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ceratoscopelus 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 itLampanyctinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Günther 1864