Lepidotus macrocheirus

Lepidotus macrocheirus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LepidotesPBDB
Diet
durophage, carnivorePBDB, for Semionotiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Semionotiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Semionotiformes

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 165.3 Mya and 154.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Jurassic — about 2 of 3 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 3 occurrencesLate Jurassic165–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165.8 Mya154.3 Mya

3 occurrences of Lepidotus macrocheirus on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

1 formation

Oxford Clay — 51.75°N, 1.18°WOxford Clay — 52.57°N, 0.23°WOxford Clay — 51.50°N, 2.06°W

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

Lepidotus macrocheirus and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Lepidotus macrocheirus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

64 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Lepidotus macrocheirus, 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Lepidotus macrocheirus

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lepidotus macrocheirus 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 itLepidotes through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Egerton 1845