Lepidopus proargenteus
No picture of Lepidopus proargenteus 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 Lepidopus proargenteus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LepidopusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 7.246 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Lepidopus proargenteus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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- Miocene100%
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 Lepidopus proargenteus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lepidopus proargenteus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Lepidopus proargenteus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
102 taxa- Alosa elongata3 sites
- Maurolicus muelleri3 sites
- Syngnathus albyi3 sites
- Arnoglossus sauvagei2 sites
- Bregmaceros albyi2 sites
- Capros aper2 sites
- Diaphus edwardsi2 sites
- Gonostoma albyi2 sites
- Lepidopus albyi2 sites
- Myctophum dorsale2 sites
- Myctophum licatae2 sites
- Paralepis albyi2 sites
- Solea2 sites
- Spratelloides gracilis2 sites
- Trachurus trachurus2 sites
- Achirus mediterraneus1 site
- Alosa crassa1 site
- Antennarius monodi1 site
- Apogonoides1 site
- Archaeotetraodon bannikovi1 site
- Batrachoides didactylus1 site
- Belone1 site
- Boops roulei1 site
- Box roulei1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Lepidopus proargenteus, 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- Analyse séquentielle d'un nouveau gisement de poissons fossiles du Messinien marin diatomitique : Masseria il Salto près de Caltagirone (Province de Catane, Sicile)1
- Messinian marine fish communities of the Mediterranean Sea1
- Les Poissons fossiles d'Oran1
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 Lepidopus proargenteus 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 Lepidopus proargenteus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lepidopus proargenteus 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 itLepidopus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Arambourg 1927