Luvarus necopinatus
Luvarus necopinatus is a species of extinct louvar that lived in the Tethys Ocean during the early Paleogene. It differs from the modern species, L. imperialis, in that L. necopinatus has an oval body shape, and is around one foot in length when fully grown.

Apokryltaros · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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- Sits inside
- LuvarusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Luvarus necopinatus 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
1 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Luvarus necopinatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Luvarus necopinatus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Luvarus necopinatus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Anguilliformes1 site
- Archaeophis turkmenicus1 site
- Archaeus oblongus1 site
- Argestichthys vysotzkyi1 site
- Auxides1 site
- Avitoluvarus dianae1 site
- Avitoluvarus mariannae1 site
- Chanos1 site
- Danatinia casca1 site
- Eocoelopoma portentosa1 site
- Eolamprogrammus senectus1 site
- Eospinus daniltshenkoi1 site
- Exellia proxima1 site
- Hemingwaya sarissa1 site
- Kushlukia permira1 site
- Mene triangulum1 site
- Neocassandra mica1 site
- Opisthrissops osseus1 site
- Palaeothunnus parvidentatus1 site
- Palimphyes palaeocenicus1 site
- Platinx1 site
- Primisardinella genetrix1 site
- Protorhamphosus parvulus1 site
- Scomberomorus avitus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Luvarus necopinatus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Luvarus necopinatus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Apokryltaros
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Luvarus necopinatus 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 itLuvarus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Danil'chenko 1968)