Lithoptila abdounensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LithoptilaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 61.66 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Lithoptila abdounensis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Lithoptila abdounensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lithoptila abdounensis and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Lithoptila abdounensis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Premontreia (Oxyscyllium) subulidens3 sites
- Abdounia africana2 sites
- Dasyatis ponsi2 sites
- Foumtizia abdouni2 sites
- Metlaouia delpiti2 sites
- Scyliorhinus ptychtus2 sites
- Abdounia beaugei1 site
- Alopias denticulatus1 site
- Archaeomanta priemi1 site
- Arechia arambourgi1 site
- Burnhamia1 site
- Burnhamia daviesi1 site
- Casieria maghrebiana1 site
- Chiloscyllium salvani1 site
- Coupatezia boujoi1 site
- Coupatezia larivei1 site
- Dasyatoidea1 site
- Delpitia reticulata1 site
- Delpitoscyllium africanum1 site
- Eostegostoma1 site
- Galeorhinus mesetaensis1 site
- Galeorhinus minutissimus1 site
- Ginglymostoma chenanei1 site
- Ginglymostoma khouribgaense1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Lithoptila abdounensis, 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
2 references- New specimens of Lithoptila abdounensis (Aves, Prophaethontidae) from the lower Paleogene of Morocco2
- Earliest African neornithine bird: a new species of Prophaethontidae (Aves) from the Paleocene of Morocco1
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
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No picture of Lithoptila abdounensis 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 Lithoptila abdounensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lithoptila abdounensis 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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What may have been alongside itLithoptila through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bourdon 2005