Neolepton

Neolepton is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs of the family Neoleptonidae.

Neolepton

Manuel CABALLER · CC BY 4.0 · 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
NeoleptonidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cyamioidea
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Cyamioidea
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cyamioidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 18.7 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 21.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 3 of 14 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 14 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 6 of 14 occurrencesPleistocene22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.9–5.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.2–4.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.4–3.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.7–3.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.0–2.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.2–1.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.5–740 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences740 ka–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences18.7 Mya11.7 ka22.2 Mya0 Mya

14 occurrences of Neolepton on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

14 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

Rifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°ESanta Barbara — 34.41°N, 119.72°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WDayrell — 29.23°S, 177.82°WSan Pedro — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPakaurangi — 36.22°S, 174.28°E

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The named rock units Neolepton has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Neolepton and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Neolepton and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

471 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Neolepton, 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

8 references

Each of the 14 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 content1

Picture of Neolepton

Credit
Manuel CABALLER
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Neolepton 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 itNeoleptonidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Monterosato 1875