Leclercqia complexa

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LeclercqiaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Protolepidodendraceae
Time the record covers
At least 5.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 382.31 Mya.
8 occurrences of Leclercqia complexa on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
8 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
6 formations
- Panther Mountain Formation · Hamilton Group2
- Pingyiqu Formation1
- Campo Chico Formation1
- Honseler Schichten Formation1
- Beartooth Butte Formation1
- Ashokan Formation · Hamilton Group1
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The named rock units Leclercqia complexa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Leclercqia complexa and its relatives
DevonianWhere Leclercqia complexa and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
78 taxa- Dibolisporites2 sites
- Euphyllophytina2 sites
- Retusotriletes2 sites
- ? Spinozonotriletes cf. naumovii1 site
- <Morphotype I>1 site
- <Morphotype II>1 site
- <Trimerophyte>1 site
- Allocryptaspis1 site
- Allocryptaspis elliptica1 site
- Anarthraspis chamberlini1 site
- Anarthraspis montanus1 site
- Aneurophyton1 site
- Aneurospora cf. heterodontus1 site
- Aneurospora semizonalis1 site
- Apiculatisporis1 site
- Apiculiretusispora1 site
- Apiculiretusispora brandtii1 site
- Arachnida1 site
- Biornatispora dentata1 site
- Biornatispora pseudospinosa1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Broeggeria1 site
- Bryantolepis1 site
- Bryantolepis brachycephala1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Leclercqia complexa, 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
8 references- SUNY-Binghamton Paleobiology Collection1
- First record of the Devonian lycophyte Leclercquia from South America1
- Studies on Early Devonian flora of Sichuan1
- Leclercqia, Haskinsia, and the Role of Leaves in Delineation of Devonian Lycopod Genera1
- Oribatid mite fossils from a terrestrial Devonian deposit near Gilboa, New York1
- A Fossil Flora from the Beartooth Butte Formation of Northern Wyoming1
- Le gisement a plantes de Niaster (Aywaille, Belgique): repere biostratigraphique noveau aux abords de la limite Covinien-Givetien1
- Leclercqia complexa gen. et sp. nov., A New Lycopod from the Late Middle Devonian of Eastern New York1
Each of the 8 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. 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 Leclercqia complexa
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Falconaumanni
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Leclercqia complexa 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 itLeclercqia through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Banks et al. 1972