Leda caudata
No picture of Leda caudata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Leda caudata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NuculanaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feeder, suspension feederPBDB, for Nuculanidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Nuculanidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Nuculanidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Nuculanidae
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.
2 occurrences of Leda caudata on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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- Pliocene50%
- Pleistocene50%
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 Leda caudata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
153 taxa- Acila (Truncacila) cobboldae2 sites
- Arctica islandica2 sites
- Astarte compressa2 sites
- Astarte mutabilis2 sites
- Astarte sulcata2 sites
- Boreotrophon clathratus2 sites
- Buccinum undatum2 sites
- Cancellaria costellifera2 sites
- Epitonium greenlandicum2 sites
- Hiatella2 sites
- Modiolus (Modiolus) modiolus2 sites
- Mya (Arenomya) arenaria2 sites
- Mya (Mya) truncata2 sites
- Panopea2 sites
- Propebela turricula2 sites
- Turritella communis2 sites
- Zirfaea crispata2 sites
- Abra alba1 site
- Abra obovalis1 site
- Acanthocardia (Acanthocardia) echinata1 site
- Aequipecten opercularis1 site
- Amyclina labiosa1 site
- Aporrhais pespelecani1 site
- Arca lactea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Leda caudata, 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
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 Leda caudata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Leda caudata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Leda caudata 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 itNuculana through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Donovan 1802)