Lophiaspis

Lophiaspis is an extinct genus of early perissodactyl endemic to Southern Europe during the Early to Middle Eocene, living from 55.8 to 37.2 Ma. Remains have been found from France, Spain, and Portugal.

No picture of Lophiaspis 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 Lophiaspis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LophiodontidaePBDB
Diet
folivorePBDB, for Lophiodontidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Lophiodontidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Lophiodontidae

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesEocene — about 13 of 13 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 13 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48.07 Mya37.71 Mya56.5 Mya33.4 Mya

13 occurrences of Lophiaspis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

13 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

Sables du Castrais — 43.37°N, 1.99°ESaint-Papoul — 43.33°N, 2.04°ESilveirinha — 40.01°N, 8.82°WGrès d'Assignan — 43.33°N, 2.62°E

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The named rock units Lophiaspis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lophiaspis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Lophiaspis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

116 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Lophiaspis, 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

6 references

Each of the 13 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. 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 content0

No picture of Lophiaspis 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 Lophiaspis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Lophiaspis 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

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 itLophiodontidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Depéret 1910