Leonaspis leonhardi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LeonaspisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Odontopleuridae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Odontopleuridae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 430.6 Mya to 419.62 Mya.
10 occurrences of Leonaspis leonhardi on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
10 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Leonaspis leonhardi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Leonaspis leonhardi and its relatives
SilurianWhere Leonaspis leonhardi and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
239 taxa- Atrypa6 sites
- Ceratocephala5 sites
- Kosovopeltis5 sites
- Septatrypa5 sites
- Gracianella4 sites
- Otarion diffractum4 sites
- Ananaspis fecunda3 sites
- Atrypoidea3 sites
- Atrypoidea linguata3 sites
- Baturria3 sites
- Bleshidium3 sites
- Crinoidea3 sites
- Gypidula3 sites
- Leptaena provellerosa3 sites
- Phaetonides striatus3 sites
- Prionopeltis archiaci3 sites
- Prionopeltis dracula3 sites
- Salopina3 sites
- Scharyia micropyga3 sites
- Stenorhynchia3 sites
- Anastrophia deflexa2 sites
- Ancyrochitina2 sites
- Angochitina2 sites
- Atrypidae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Leonaspis leonhardi, 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
6 references- Silurian field excursions: Prague Basin (Barrandian), Bohemia4
- Silurian and Lochkovian communities in the Prague basin (Barrandian area, Czech Republic)2
- Pridoli--the fourth subdivision of the Silurian1
- Spain1
- Barrandian1
- Trilobiten des juengeren Siluriums sowie des Unter- und Mitteldevons. II.1
Each of the 10 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Leonaspis leonhardi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Leonaspis leonhardi 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 itLeonaspis through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Barrande 1846)