Lampanyctus regalis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LampanyctusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Myctophiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Myctophiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Myctophiformes
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 129 ka.
3 occurrences of Lampanyctus regalis on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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- Miocene33%
- Pliocene33%
- Pleistocene33%
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 Lampanyctus regalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lampanyctus regalis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Lampanyctus regalis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
71 taxa- Benthosema2 sites
- Ceratoscopelus townsendi2 sites
- Diaphus theta2 sites
- Lampadena urophaos2 sites
- Lampanyctus ritteri2 sites
- Stenobrachius leucopsarus2 sites
- Tarletonbeania crenularis2 sites
- Triphoturus mexicanus2 sites
- Acirsella effiae1 site
- Acropoma1 site
- Aldrovandia1 site
- Asperiscala bellastriata1 site
- Asperiscala minuticosta1 site
- Atheresthes1 site
- Bathylagus1 site
- Benthodesmus1 site
- Cancer chaneyi1 site
- Cancer productus1 site
- Ceratoscopelus1 site
- Chauliodus1 site
- Clidoderma1 site
- Coelorhynchus1 site
- Cyclothone1 site
- Diaphus hataii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Lampanyctus regalis, 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- Fossil lanternfish otoliths of California, with notes on fossil Myctophidae of North America2
- Deep fish assemblage from the Middle Miocene Morozaki Group, southern part of Chita Penninsula, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan1
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. 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 content0
No picture of Lampanyctus regalis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Lampanyctus regalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lampanyctus regalis 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itLampanyctus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gilbert 1892)