Leda elliptica
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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 279 million years on record.
The record covers at least 440.5 Mya to 161.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 154.8 Mya.
12 occurrences of Leda elliptica on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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
12 occurrencesThese 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
- Trochitenkalk Formation · Muschelkalk Group2
- Power Glen Formation2
- Bear Creek Formation · Clinton Group1
- Herkimer Formation · Clinton Group1
- Oxford Clay Formation · Ancholme Group1
- Cassian Formation1
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The named rock units Leda elliptica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Leda elliptica and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Leda elliptica and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
517 taxa- Coenothyris vulgaris3 sites
- Entolium discites3 sites
- Hoernesia socialis3 sites
- Myophoria vulgaris3 sites
- Neoschizodus laevigatus3 sites
- Bakevellia costata2 sites
- Chemnitzia2 sites
- Elegantinia elegans2 sites
- Encrinus liliiformis2 sites
- Germanonautilus2 sites
- Helopora fragilis2 sites
- Leda subtrigona2 sites
- Loxonema2 sites
- Mactromya2 sites
- Modiolopsis2 sites
- Myophoria germanica2 sites
- Myophoriopis2 sites
- Neoschizodus cardissoides2 sites
- Nothosaurus2 sites
- Nucula goldfussii2 sites
- Nuculana2 sites
- Philippiella noetlingi2 sites
- Placunopsis ostracina2 sites
- Plagiostoma striatum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Leda elliptica, 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
9 references- Silurian stratigraphy and palæontology of the Niagara escarpment in Ontario2
- The Clinton of Western and Central New York2
- Neue Zweischaler und Brachiopoden aus der Bakonyer Trias [New bivalves and brachiopods from the Bakony Trias]2
- Der Obere Muschelkalk im nordwestlichen Niederhessen1
- Fazies und Fauna des Oberen Muschelkalkes von Willebadessen1
- On the occurence of Marine Triassic (Muschelkalk) deposits in Sinai1
- Zur Kenntnis des untern Trochitenkalkes in nördlichen Kraichgau1
- Phillips, 18711
- Beiträge zur Geognosie und Petrefacten-Kunde des südöstlichen Tirols vorzüglich der Schichten von St. Cassian1
Each of the 12 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
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No picture of Leda elliptica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 elliptica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Leda elliptica 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 timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Goldfuss 1837)