Lithelius

No picture of Lithelius was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Lithelius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LitheliidaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 251 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 254.14 Mya to 0 Mya.

Permian — about 9 of 304 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 304 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 304 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 304 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 304 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 304 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 304 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 304 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 8 of 304 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 78 of 304 occurrencesEocene — about 20 of 304 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 304 occurrencesMiocene — about 19 of 304 occurrencesPliocene — about 32 of 304 occurrencesPleistocene — about 115 of 304 occurrences259–251 Mya — about 9 occurrences86–78 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences78–69 Mya — about 4 occurrences69–60 Mya — about 79 occurrences60–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–43 Mya — about 6 occurrences43–35 Mya — about 12 occurrences35–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–17 Mya — about 7 occurrences17–8.6 Mya — about 9 occurrences8.6–0 Mya — about 172 occurrences251.902 Mya11.7 ka259 Mya0 Mya

304 occurrences of Lithelius on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

304 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

4 formations

Mead Hill — 41.92°S, 174.07°EDalong — 22.27°N, 107.69°EKirsanovskaya — 52.55°N, 42.57°ETakinoue — 42.80°N, 142.35°E

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The named rock units Lithelius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 243 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lithelius and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Lithelius and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

429 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 258 sites for Lithelius, and this reads 240 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

22 references

Each of the 304 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. 10 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

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No picture of Lithelius was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Lithelius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Haeckel 1860