Laufeldochitina
No picture of Laufeldochitina was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Laufeldochitina firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhizopodeaPBDB
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 458.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Laufeldochitina 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
2 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Laufeldochitina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Laufeldochitina and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Laufeldochitina and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Belonechitina2 sites
- Baltoniodus1 site
- Baltoplacognathus reclinatus1 site
- Conochitina1 site
- Cyathochitina1 site
- Drepanoistodus basiovalis1 site
- Euconochitina1 site
- Lagenochitina1 site
- Oslodus semisymmetricus1 site
- Panderodus sulcatus1 site
- Pterochitina1 site
- Pygodus serra1 site
- Sacabambaspis1 site
- Semiacontiodus cornuformis1 site
- Tanuchitina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Laufeldochitina, 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- Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician) conodont biostratigraphy in NW Estonia1
- Ordovician fish from the Arabian Peninsula1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Laufeldochitina was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Laufeldochitina firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Laufeldochitina 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itRhizopodea through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Paris 1981