Labechia prima

Labechia prima

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
LabechiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Labechiidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Labechiidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Labechiidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Labechiidae

Time the record covers

At least 5.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 452.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 445.2 Mya.

Ordovician — about 6 of 6 occurrencesOrdovician472–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458.2 Mya452.8 Mya471.8 Mya444.7 Mya

6 occurrences of Labechia prima on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

6 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

2 formations

Crown Point — 44.87°N, 73.33°WCrown Point — 44.87°N, 73.40°WCrown Point — 44.62°N, 73.42°WCrown Point — 44.68°N, 73.32°WMingan — 50.21°N, 64.14°W

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The named rock units Labechia prima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Labechia prima and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Labechia prima and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

24 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Labechia prima, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 6 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 Labechia prima

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itLabechia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kapp and Stearn 1975