Leptolepidites major

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 153 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 11 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 11 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 8 of 11 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 11 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 11 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 11 occurrences171–166 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences166–160 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences143–138 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences138–132 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences132–126 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences126–121 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences121–115 Mya — about 1 occurrence115–109 Mya — about 3 occurrences109–104 Mya — about 2 occurrences104–98 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences75–70 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences70–64 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–7.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.7–2.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences165.3 Mya11.63 Mya171 Mya2 Mya

11 occurrences of Leptolepidites major 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

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

Piedra Clavada — 49.53°S, 71.48°WPiedra Clavada — 49.60°S, 71.47°WCalcaires à Stipites — 44.18°N, 3.22°EChiquimil — 26.83°S, 66.00°WAgua Caliente — 7.21°S, 74.95°WLa Cantera — 33.00°S, 66.50°WTambo — 29.13°S, 140.88°ERunnymede — 37.37°S, 140.90°EChorrillo — 50.50°S, 72.56°W

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The named rock units Leptolepidites major 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.

Leptolepidites major and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

169 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Leptolepidites major, 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

9 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Leptolepidites major was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itLeptolepidites through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Couper 1953