Lobianchia dofleini

Lobianchia dofleini, also known as Dofleini's lantern fish, is a species of lanternfish. It is found in the Atlantic Ocean.

Lobianchia dofleini

Emma Kissling · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
Dofleini's lanternfishPBDB
Sits inside
LobianchiaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Myctophiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Myctophiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Myctophiformes

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 129 ka.

Oligocene — about 1 of 35 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 18 of 35 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 35 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 11 of 35 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.3–8.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.4–7.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.5–5.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.6–3.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences23.04 Mya774 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

35 occurrences of Lobianchia dofleini on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

35 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

6 formations

Lindos Bay — 36.09°N, 28.01°ELindos Bay — 36.26°N, 28.17°ELindos Bay — 36.36°N, 28.21°EBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WBells Creek Mudstone — 41.33°S, 175.48°EHijikata — 34.65°N, 138.04°ESant’Agata Fossili — 45.07°N, 7.94°EArgille Azzurre — 43.31°N, 11.49°E

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The named rock units Lobianchia dofleini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lobianchia dofleini and its relatives

Miocene

Where Lobianchia dofleini and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

542 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Lobianchia dofleini, 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

16 references

Each of the 35 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. 4 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

Media content2

Picture of Lobianchia dofleini

Credit
Emma Kissling
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Lobianchia dofleini · MCZ:Ich:157862

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itLobianchia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Zugmayer 1911)