Lepetopsis

Lepetopsis

Newell, Norman D.; Moore, Raymond C. · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MetoptomatidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Archinacellida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Archinacellida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Archinacellida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Tergomya

Time the record covers

At least 119 million years on record.

The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 205.7 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 40 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 19 of 40 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 19 of 40 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 40 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 40 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 40 occurrencesLate Triassic362–357 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences357–351 Mya — about 1 occurrence351–346 Mya — about 1 occurrence346–341 Mya — about 2 occurrences341–335 Mya — about 4 occurrences335–330 Mya — about 5 occurrences330–325 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences325–319 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences309–304 Mya — about 1 occurrence304–298 Mya — about 4 occurrences298–293 Mya — about 2 occurrences288–282 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences282–277 Mya — about 2 occurrences277–272 Mya — about 2 occurrences272–266 Mya — about 3 occurrences266–261 Mya — about 7 occurrences261–256 Mya — about 2 occurrences256–250 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences245–240 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences240–234 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences229–224 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences224–219 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences219–213 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences213–208 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences208–203 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences346.7 Mya227.3 Mya362 Mya203 Mya

40 occurrences of Lepetopsis on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

40 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

28 formations

Kaibab — 35.20°N, 111.57°WNeal Ranch — 30.36°N, 103.13°WDangarfield — 32.05°S, 150.92°EDangarfield — 32.03°S, 150.97°EHotwells — 51.22°N, 0.63°WCapitan — 31.89°N, 104.86°WCapitan — 32.18°N, 104.38°WMattoon — 39.18°N, 88.60°WGlen Dean — 37.37°N, 88.97°WGolconda — 37.37°N, 88.97°W"Carboniferous" — 50.85°N, 20.42°EH. S. Lee — 4.30°N, 101.15°EMount Head — 50.48°N, 114.71°WEpiskopi — 37.31°N, 23.42°EFődolomit — 47.55°N, 18.99°EFeltrim — 53.43°N, 6.20°WHuanggangliang — 41.85°N, 120.41°ETaxi — 49.49°N, 126.25°ERanger Canyon — 53.70°N, 119.25°WClyde — 31.74°N, 99.83°WCathedral Mountain — 30.40°N, 103.13°WSkinner Ranch — 30.29°N, 103.32°WSilungkang — 1.75°S, 101.80°EMarmolata — 46.46°N, 11.85°EBird Spring — 36.73°N, 114.77°WDanny Bridge — 53.77°N, 1.92°W

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The named rock units Lepetopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lepetopsis and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Lepetopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,083 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Lepetopsis, 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

27 references

Each of the 40 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. 15 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 Lepetopsis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Newell, Norman D.; Moore, Raymond C.
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lepetopsis 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 itMetoptomatidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Whitfield 1882