Lejopyge acantha
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LejopygePBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Agnostida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Agnostida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Agnostida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Ptychagnostidae
Time the record covers
At most 9.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 506.5 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Lejopyge acantha on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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- Cambrian100%
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 Lejopyge acantha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lejopyge acantha and its relatives
CambrianWhere Lejopyge acantha and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Acidusus aculeatus2 sites
- Diplagnostus planicauda2 sites
- Parablackwelderia sheridanorum2 sites
- Torifera jelli2 sites
- Baltagnostus rakuroensis1 site
- Clavagnostus calensis1 site
- Clavagnostus trispinus1 site
- Diplagnostus1 site
- Fuchouia bulba1 site
- Fuchouia oratolimba1 site
- Goniagnostus1 site
- Himalisania sudani1 site
- Hypagnostus brevifrons1 site
- Lejopyge armata1 site
- Neoanomocarella asiatica1 site
- Parablackwelderia jimaensis1 site
- Proagnostus bulbus1 site
- Pseudophalacroma ovale1 site
- Tomagnostella exsculpta1 site
- Utagnostus neglectus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Lejopyge acantha, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 Lejopyge acantha was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Lejopyge acantha, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itLejopyge through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Robison 1984