Latitaenia rotelloidea

Koken · CC BY-NC 4.0 · 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
- LatitaeniaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Gosseletinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.5 Mya and 445.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Latitaenia rotelloidea 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
1 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
- Moe Formation · Lyckholm Group1
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The named rock units Latitaenia rotelloidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Latitaenia rotelloidea and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Latitaenia rotelloidea and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
8 taxa- Brachytomaria baltica1 site
- Hormotoma insignis1 site
- Nybyoceras balticum1 site
- Nybyoceras bekkeri1 site
- Nybyoceras intermedium1 site
- Ormoceras heckeri1 site
- Strandoceras sphinx1 site
- Subulites subula1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Latitaenia rotelloidea, 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
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 Latitaenia rotelloidea
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Koken
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Latitaenia rotelloidea was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itLatitaenia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Koken 1896)