Lestidium sp.

Lestidium is a genus of barracudina. They are sometimes referred to as pike smelt.

A picture published with the record for Lestidium sp.. What it shows has not been checked.

Uncredited · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

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.

Miocene — about 3 of 3 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences7.3–7.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.2–7.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.1–7.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.0–6.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.9–6.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.8–6.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.7–6.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.6–6.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.5–6.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.4–6.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.3–6.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.2–6.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.1–6.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.0–5.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.9–5.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.8–5.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.7–5.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.6–5.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.5–5.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.75 Mya4.83 Mya

3 occurrences of Lestidium sp. 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

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.

Lestidium sp. and its relatives

Miocene

Where Lestidium sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

54 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Lestidium sp., 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

1 reference

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 Lestidium sp.

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No 3D scan of Lestidium sp. 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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.