Lophiidae

Lophiidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LophiiformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Lophiiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Lophiiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Lophiiformes

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 37 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 37 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 6 of 37 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 37 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 13 of 37 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 37 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 37 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–47 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–9.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 6 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences56 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

37 occurrences of Lophiidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

37 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

11 formations

Boom — 51.09°N, 4.36°EBoom — 51.11°N, 4.33°EMonterey — 34.61°N, 120.44°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WKempsville — 36.79°N, 76.17°WRaz-el-Ain — 35.71°N, 0.64°WSables d'Anvers — 51.13°N, 4.29°EBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.66°WDeist — 51.19°N, 4.46°ECatahoula — 31.66°N, 88.66°WArgille Azzurre — 43.31°N, 11.49°E

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The named rock units Lophiidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lophiidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Lophiidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,617 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Lophiidae, 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

24 references

Each of the 37 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. 12 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 content1

Picture of Lophiidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lophiidae 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 itLophiiformes through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cuvier