Lamptonium
No picture of Lamptonium 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 Lamptonium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TheocotylidaePBDB
Time the record covers
At least 23 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
43 occurrences of Lamptonium on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
43 occurrences- Late Cretaceous1%
- Paleocene14%
- Eocene85%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Lamptonium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 36 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lamptonium and its relatives
EoceneWhere Lamptonium and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
91 taxa- Phormocyrtis striata18 sites
- Podocyrtis (Lampterium) sinuosa17 sites
- Calocycloma16 sites
- Spongatractus pachystylus16 sites
- Thyrsocyrtis (Thyrsocyrtis) hirsuta16 sites
- Theocorys anaclasta15 sites
- Theocotylissa ficus15 sites
- Theocotyle14 sites
- Podocyrtis (Podocyrtis) papalis13 sites
- Spongosphaera13 sites
- Thyrsocyrtis (Thyrsocyrtis) robusta13 sites
- Amphisphaera9 sites
- Buryella tetradica9 sites
- Lychnocanoma babylonis9 sites
- Periphaena9 sites
- Podocyrtis (Podocyrtis) diamesa9 sites
- Lychnocanoma8 sites
- Periphaena delta8 sites
- Phormocyrtis8 sites
- Pterocodon8 sites
- Sethochytris8 sites
- Theocotyle cryptocephala8 sites
- Theocotyle nigriniae8 sites
- Thyrsocyrtis (Thyrsocyrtis) rhizodon8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Lamptonium, 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
5 references- Site U133126
- Site U14077
- Biostratigraphy of Late Paleocene- Middle Eocene radiolarians and foraminifera from Cyprus7
- Site U14032
- Site U14381
Each of the 43 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 Lamptonium 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 Lamptonium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lamptonium 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTheocotylidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haeckel 1887