Lepagia gaumensis

Lepagia is an extinct genus of poorly known carnivorous cynodonts, which lived during the Upper Triassic in Europe. Partly due to the paucity of remains the precise affinities of this genus are unclear. It seems reasonably closely related to Probainognathus, a somewhat earlier inhabitant of South America. The genus Lepagia was named by Hahn, Wild and Wouters in 1987 based on a single species.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LepagiaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At most 4.3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 205.7 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 3 of 3 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrences206–206 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences205–205 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences205–205 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences205–205 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences205–205 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences205–205 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences205–204 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences204–204 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences204–204 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences204–204 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences204–204 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences204–204 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences204–203 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences203–203 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences203–203 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences203–203 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences203–203 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences203–202 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences202–202 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences202–202 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences202–202 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences202–202 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences202–202 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences206.2 Mya200.9 Mya

3 occurrences of Lepagia gaumensis on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

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

3 formations

Sables de Mortinsart — 49.71°N, 5.62°EGrès à Avicula contorta — 48.62°N, 6.33°EExter — 51.57°N, 9.05°E

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The named rock units Lepagia gaumensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Lepagia gaumensis and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Lepagia gaumensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

58 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Lepagia gaumensis, 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

3 references

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

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No picture of Lepagia gaumensis 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 Lepagia gaumensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Lepagia gaumensis 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

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

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What may have been alongside itLepagia through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hahn et al. 1987