Leptolepidites

No picture of Leptolepidites 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 Leptolepidites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BlechnaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 239 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.1 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 234 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 9 of 234 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 234 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 234 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 3 of 234 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 5 of 234 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 234 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 146 of 234 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 35 of 234 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 13 of 234 occurrencesEocene — about 20 of 234 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 234 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 234 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 234 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 234 occurrences257–248 Mya — about 9 occurrences197–188 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences188–180 Mya — about 1 occurrence180–171 Mya — about 1 occurrence171–163 Mya — about 5 occurrences163–154 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences154–146 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences146–137 Mya — about 3 occurrences137–129 Mya — about 7 occurrences129–120 Mya — about 18 occurrences120–112 Mya — about 77 occurrences112–103 Mya — about 34 occurrences103–94 Mya — about 13 occurrences94–86 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences86–77 Mya — about 3 occurrences77–69 Mya — about 15 occurrences69–60 Mya — about 23 occurrences60–52 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences52–43 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences43–35 Mya — about 16 occurrences35–26 Mya — about 4 occurrences26–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–8.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.9–402 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences251.1 Mya11.63 Mya257 Mya402 ka

234 occurrences of Leptolepidites on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

234 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

49 formations

Riachuelo — 10.65°S, 37.04°WYaw — 23.23°N, 94.25°EBentiu — 11.03°N, 27.74°EAbu Gabra — 11.03°N, 27.74°EHell Creek — 46.29°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 46.02°N, 103.76°WMonte Chico — 51.59°S, 72.41°WMonte Chico — 51.18°S, 72.29°WMuribeca — 10.65°S, 37.04°WOcal — 2.62°N, 75.53°WBurg El-Arab — 30.99°N, 27.77°ESix Hills — 25.00°N, 28.50°ESix Hills — 25.50°N, 29.00°ESix Hills — 25.50°N, 29.25°EAlamein — 29.00°N, 29.00°EPiedra Clavada — 49.53°S, 71.48°WPiedra Clavada — 49.60°S, 71.47°WChorrillo — 50.50°S, 72.56°WFort Union — 46.35°N, 103.87°WFort Union — 46.02°N, 103.76°WCaballos — 2.62°N, 75.53°WKachaike — 49.06°S, 72.14°WKachaike — 48.82°S, 72.12°WKachaike — 49.00°S, 72.00°WTambo — 27.34°S, 135.72°ETambo — 29.13°S, 140.88°ECerro Dorotea — 51.59°S, 72.41°WKharita — 29.00°N, 29.00°EAbu Roash — 29.00°N, 29.00°EHuitrin or Rayoso — 38.38°S, 70.03°WLefipán — 42.58°S, 69.98°WWhisky Bay — 63.87°S, 58.08°WKotick Point — 64.00°S, 58.36°WKotick Point — 64.01°S, 58.35°W

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The named rock units Leptolepidites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Leptolepidites and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Leptolepidites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,237 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 143 sites for Leptolepidites, 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

53 references

Each of the 234 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. 41 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 content0

No picture of Leptolepidites 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 Leptolepidites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Leptolepidites 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Couper 1953