Leanchoilia superlata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LeanchoiliaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Leanchoilia
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Leanchoilia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Leanchoilia
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Leanchoilia
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 509.7 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Leanchoilia 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
14 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
2 formations
- Burgess Shale Formation · Chancellor Group13
- Langston Formation1
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The named rock units Leanchoilia superlata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Leanchoilia superlata and its relatives
CambrianWhere Leanchoilia superlata and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
136 taxa- Canadaspis perfecta13 sites
- Diraphora13 sites
- Ehmaniella burgessensis13 sites
- Hazelia13 sites
- Hurdia13 sites
- Laggania13 sites
- Liangshanella13 sites
- Marrella splendens13 sites
- Morania13 sites
- Pentagnostus praecurrens13 sites
- Selkirkia columbia13 sites
- Trilobita13 sites
- Wiwaxia corrugata13 sites
- Yohoia13 sites
- Acrothyra12 sites
- Burgessia12 sites
- Haplophrentis carinatus12 sites
- Ottoia prolifica12 sites
- Scenella amii12 sites
- Sidneyia12 sites
- Waptia fieldensis12 sites
- Chancelloria eros11 sites
- Lingulella11 sites
- Naraoia compacta11 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Leanchoilia superlata, and this reads all of them. 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
2 references- Paleoecology of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale13
- Middle Cambrian arthropods from Utah1
Each of the 14 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 Leanchoilia superlata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Leanchoilia superlata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itLeanchoilia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1912