Leanchoila superlata
No picture of Leanchoila superlata was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Leanchoila superlata 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.
Time the record covers
At most 9.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 506.5 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Leanchoila superlata on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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- Cambrian100%
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
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The named rock units Leanchoila superlata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Leanchoila superlata and its relatives
CambrianWhere Leanchoila superlata and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Anomalocaris1 site
- Banffia episoma1 site
- Hurdia1 site
- Isoxyes sp.1 site
- Leanchoilia superlata1 site
- Lyracystis reesei1 site
- Meristosoma paradoxum1 site
- Mollisonia symmetrica1 site
- Ponticulocarpus robisoni1 site
- Sidneyia1 site
- Thelxiope palaeothalassia1 site
- Waptia fieldensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Leanchoila superlata, 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 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
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No picture of Leanchoila superlata was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Leanchoila superlata 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 Leanchoila superlata 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 itFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.