Ledina smirna
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LedinaPBDB
- 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 61.66 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 56 Mya.
15 occurrences of Ledina smirna on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
15 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
5 formations
- Wills Point Formation · Midway Group5
- Midway Formation4
- Kincaid Formation · Midway Group3
- Porters Creek Formation · Midway Group2
- Poerters Creek Formation · Midway Group1
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The named rock units Ledina smirna has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ledina smirna and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Ledina smirna and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
79 taxa- Mesalia3 sites
- Turritella3 sites
- Vokesula aldrichi3 sites
- Agaronia2 sites
- Athleta (Volutocorbis)2 sites
- Calyptraphorus2 sites
- Cucullaea2 sites
- Euspira2 sites
- Exilia pergracilis2 sites
- Falsifusus2 sites
- Glycymeris2 sites
- Laevibuccinum2 sites
- Latirus2 sites
- Levifusus2 sites
- Musculus2 sites
- Natica2 sites
- Naticarius2 sites
- Odontogryphaea thirsae2 sites
- Orthosurcula2 sites
- Ostrea2 sites
- Perissolax2 sites
- Pleurotomella2 sites
- Polinices eminulus2 sites
- Priscoficus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Ledina smirna, 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
4 references- The Midway Group of Texas8
- Mollusca of the Tertiary formations of Northeastern Mexico4
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals2
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda1
Each of the 15 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 content0
No picture of Ledina smirna 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 Ledina smirna, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ledina smirna 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 itLedina through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1898)