Lepidotus maximus
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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 9.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 154.8 Mya and 145.06 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Lepidotus maximus on record, most of them in the Late 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
4 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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 Lepidotus maximus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lepidotus maximus and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Lepidotus maximus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
113 taxa- Acicularia elongata1 site
- Acrocidaris1 site
- Adelocoenia limbata1 site
- Angaria1 site
- Arca1 site
- Arca (Eonavicula) trisulcata1 site
- Arcomytilus furcatus1 site
- Aspidoceras1 site
- Aspidorhynchus ornatissimus1 site
- Astarte1 site
- Asteracanthus ornatissimus1 site
- Asthenocormus titanius1 site
- Belonostomus muensteri1 site
- Calamoseris disputabilis1 site
- Callipurbeckia notopterus1 site
- Cardita1 site
- Cassianopsis decussata1 site
- Caturus maximus1 site
- Ceriopora1 site
- Cidaris1 site
- Cnemidiastrum corallinum1 site
- Cryptoplocus1 site
- Ctenostreon1 site
- Cyathophora bourgueti1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Lepidotus maximus, 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
4 references- Aufbau und Petrographie des Riffkomplexes von Arnegg im höheren Weißen Jura der Schwäbischen Alb (Württemberg)1
- Wirbelthier-Reste aus dem oberen Jura von Fritzow bei Cammin [Vertebrate remains from the Upper Jurassic of Fritzow in Cammin]1
- Sulla probabile esistenza del gen. Carcharodon nel Mare Titonico [On the probable existence of the gen. Carcharodon in the Tithonian Sea]1
- Monographie der fossilien Fische aus den Lithographischen Schiefern Bayerns1
Each of the 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Lepidotus maximus 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 Lepidotus maximus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lepidotus maximus 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 Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wagner 1863