Laevidentalium

Laevidentalium is a genus of molluscs belonging to the family Laevidentaliidae.

Laevidentalium

Sowerby, 1860 · CC0 · via Wikidata/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
LaevidentaliidaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Dentaliida
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Dentaliida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Dentaliida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Scaphopoda

Time the record covers

At least 339 million years on record.

The record covers at least 339.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Carboniferous — about 4 of 192 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 192 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 2 of 192 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 13 of 192 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 192 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 33 of 192 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 36 of 192 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 192 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 192 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 192 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 7 of 192 occurrencesEocene — about 41 of 192 occurrencesOligocene — about 4 of 192 occurrencesMiocene — about 39 of 192 occurrencesPliocene — about 6 of 192 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 192 occurrences354–342 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences342–330 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences330–318 Mya — about 2 occurrences259–248 Mya — about 2 occurrences248–236 Mya — about 13 occurrences236–224 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences224–212 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences212–200 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences200–189 Mya — about 16 occurrences189–177 Mya — about 17 occurrences177–165 Mya — about 36 occurrences106–94 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences94–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences71–59 Mya — about 5 occurrences59–47 Mya — about 8 occurrences47–35 Mya — about 34 occurrences35–24 Mya — about 4 occurrences24–12 Mya — about 29 occurrences12–0 Mya — about 21 occurrences339.9 Mya129 ka354 Mya0 Mya

192 occurrences of Laevidentalium on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

192 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

49 formations

Llajas — 34.32°N, 118.63°WLlajas — 34.27°N, 118.71°WQingyan — 26.33°N, 106.68°EKalchreuth — 49.55°N, 11.13°EDrazinda — 29.95°N, 70.12°EGatun — 9.30°N, 79.92°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WTapui Glauconitic Sandstone — 45.01°S, 170.71°ETapui Glauconitic Sandstone — 44.96°S, 170.65°EMoodys Branch — 32.30°N, 90.18°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WEwekoro — 6.92°N, 3.19°EBohio — 9.18°N, 79.88°WArakida — 35.75°N, 137.92°EBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WStillwater Mudstone — 42.47°S, 171.18°EKauru — 44.79°S, 170.51°EKauru — 45.04°S, 170.76°EWaihao — 44.20°S, 171.05°EWaihao — 44.16°S, 171.10°EIhungia — 40.30°S, 176.28°EZhitkov — 42.93°N, 132.43°EMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°ESt. Louis — 41.33°N, 92.17°WRedoak Hollow — 34.37°N, 97.34°WMoonkinu — 11.80°S, 130.40°EMyslejovice — 49.27°N, 17.00°EEntrerriense — 42.17°S, 64.08°W

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The named rock units Laevidentalium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 76 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Laevidentalium and its relatives

Eocene

Where Laevidentalium and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,566 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 156 sites for Laevidentalium, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

54 references

Each of the 192 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. 42 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 Laevidentalium

Credit
Sowerby, 1860
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Laevidentalium 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 itLaevidentaliidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cossmann 1888)