Linuparus africanus
No picture of Linuparus africanus 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 Linuparus africanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LinuparusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Palinuridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At most 4.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 89.8 Mya and 85.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Linuparus africanus on record, most of them in the Late 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
1 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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.
Linuparus africanus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Linuparus africanus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Acteonella1 site
- Aphrodina (Mesocallista) quenseli1 site
- Astarte1 site
- Cardita barroneti1 site
- Cardita beaumonti1 site
- Cardium (Protocardia) pauli1 site
- Corbula1 site
- Gyrodes (Gyrodes) tenellus1 site
- Liopistha ventricosa1 site
- Mecaster fourneli1 site
- Metatissotia redtenbacheri1 site
- Mytilus angulatus1 site
- Peroniceras czoernigi1 site
- Peroniceras latelobatum1 site
- Pinna laticostata1 site
- Plicatula locardi1 site
- Scalaria varicostata1 site
- Trigonarca angolensis1 site
- Turritella arduissima1 site
- Turritella harborti1 site
- Veniella undata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Linuparus africanus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
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No picture of Linuparus africanus 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 Linuparus africanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Linuparus africanus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLinuparus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Glaessner 1932