Leiostegium

No picture of Leiostegium 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 Leiostegium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LeiostegiidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Leiostegiidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 9.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 477.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 457.3 Mya.

Cambrian — about 12 of 63 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 51 of 63 occurrencesOrdovician540–538 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences538–535 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences535–532 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences532–529 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences529–526 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences526–523 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences523–521 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences521–518 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences518–515 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences515–512 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences512–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–507 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences507–504 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences504–501 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences501–498 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences498–495 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences495–492 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences492–490 Mya — about 3 occurrences490–487 Mya — about 8 occurrences487–484 Mya — about 15 occurrences484–481 Mya — about 18 occurrences481–478 Mya — about 10 occurrences478–475 Mya — about 5 occurrences475–473 Mya — about 1 occurrence473–470 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences470–467 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences467–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486.85 Mya – 477.1 Mya540 Mya456 Mya

63 occurrences of Leiostegium on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

63 occurrences

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

22 formations

Survey Peak — 52.88°N, 118.08°WSurvey Peak — 51.18°N, 115.57°WDeadwood — 47.42°N, 105.59°WDeadwood — 46.87°N, 103.30°WGoodwin — 37.34°N, 115.38°WGoodwin — 39.20°N, 116.25°WGoodwin — 38.28°N, 116.42°WGoodwin — 36.65°N, 116.17°WGoodwin — 39.10°N, 116.26°WShenjiawan — 29.13°N, 110.95°EYeli — 39.00°N, 118.00°EYeli — 40.00°N, 114.00°EYeli — 42.00°N, 126.00°EGarden City — 42.11°N, 111.63°WGarden City — 41.92°N, 112.15°WDayangcha — 42.06°N, 126.71°EBoat Harbour — 50.77°N, 57.14°WSt. Charles — 41.63°N, 111.67°WTanyard — 30.27°N, 97.74°WValmy — 38.87°N, 117.92°WSan Juan — 31.00°S, 69.00°WGuanacuna — 22.00°S, 65.00°WCardonal — 23.00°S, 66.00°WFloresta — 23.29°S, 65.65°WJosé — 31.80°N, 107.75°WNinmaroo — 22.53°S, 140.35°EFillmore Limestone — 39.89°N, 113.37°WDigger Island — 38.81°S, 146.04°EKirtonryggen — 79.85°N, 17.67°EHighgate — 44.97°N, 73.05°WRabbitkettle — 61.78°N, 127.95°W

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The named rock units Leiostegium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Leiostegium and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Leiostegium and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

283 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Leiostegium, 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

35 references

Each of the 63 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. 23 further references are not listed. 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 Leiostegium 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 Leiostegium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Leiostegium 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Raymond 1913