Leiodorella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LeiodorellinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lithistida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lithistida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lithistida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lithistida
Time the record covers
At least 1.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 159 Mya to 157.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 143.1 Mya.
13 occurrences of Leiodorella on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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
13 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Leiodorella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Leiodorella and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Leiodorella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
41 taxa- Cylindrophyma milleporata4 sites
- Cypellia rugosa4 sites
- Hyalotragos patella4 sites
- Platychonia schlotheimi4 sites
- Cnemidiastrum stellatum3 sites
- Cnemopeltia (Cnemopeltia) rimulosum3 sites
- Craticularia3 sites
- Cribrospongia reticulata3 sites
- Hyalotragos pezizoides3 sites
- Paracypellia prolifera3 sites
- Ramispongia ramosa3 sites
- Cribrospongia2 sites
- Dictyonocoelia schweiggeri2 sites
- Discophyma2 sites
- Hexactinosa2 sites
- Keuppiella pertusa2 sites
- Laocoetis paradoxa2 sites
- Ordinatus texturatus2 sites
- Sporadopyle obliqua2 sites
- Stauroderma lochense2 sites
- Xenoschrammenum alternans2 sites
- Cnemidiastrum hoheneggeri1 site
- Corynella cribrata1 site
- Coscinaulus micropora1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Leiodorella, 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
3 references- Lower to Middle Oxfordian sponges of the Polish Jura8
- Middle to Upper Oxfordian sponges of the Polish Jura4
- Catalogue of the fossil sponges in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History)1
Each of the 13 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 Leiodorella
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Leiodorella was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLeiodorellinae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zittel 1878