Lepidopleurus

Lepidopleurus is an extant genus of chitons in the family Leptochitonidae.

Lepidopleurus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LeptochitoninaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Polyplacophora
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Polyplacophora
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Polyplacophora
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Polyplacophora
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Polyplacophora

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 4 of 11 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 11 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 11 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 11 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–33 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences33.9 Mya129 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

11 occurrences of Lepidopleurus on record. 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

11 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

8 formations

Mandrikovka — 48.45°N, 34.98°ERifle Butts — 45.08°S, 170.95°EAlzey — 49.83°N, 7.72°EWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°EPanchina — 43.57°N, 10.35°ELincoln Creek — 46.96°N, 123.28°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°W

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

Found in the same rock

969 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Lepidopleurus, 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

8 references

Each of the 11 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 content1

Picture of Lepidopleurus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Lepidopleurus 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 itLeptochitoninae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1847