Leptaena (Leptaena) altera
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Leptaena (Leptaena)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Leptaena
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Leptaena
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Leptaena
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 431.2 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 433.5 Mya to 413.02 Mya.
10 occurrences of Leptaena (Leptaena) altera 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 occurrencesThese 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
6 formations
- Riga Formation2
- Pangamaja Formation2
- Borshchiv Formation1
- Paprieniai Formation1
- Pagegiai Formation1
- Birstonas Formation1
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The named rock units Leptaena (Leptaena) altera 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.
Leptaena (Leptaena) altera and its relatives
SilurianWhere Leptaena (Leptaena) altera and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Eoplectodonta (Ygerodiscus) bella2 sites
- Jonesea grayi2 sites
- Leangella (Leangella) segmentum2 sites
- Leptaena (Leptaena) depressa2 sites
- Atrypa1 site
- Camarium1 site
- Chlupacina1 site
- Clorinda1 site
- Cymostrophia (Protocymostrophia)1 site
- Cyrtia1 site
- Cyrtina1 site
- Dalejina1 site
- Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) penkillensis1 site
- Eospirifer radiatus1 site
- Isorthis parvulus1 site
- Lanceomyonia1 site
- Leptaena (Leptaena) purpurea1 site
- Lissatrypa lithuanica1 site
- Lissatrypa obovata1 site
- Meristina1 site
- Oglu1 site
- Plagiorhyncha depressa1 site
- Plectodonta1 site
- Plectodonta (Plectodonta) mariae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Leptaena (Leptaena) altera, 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- Strophomenide and orthotetide Silurian brachiopods from the Baltic region, with particular reference to Lithuanian boreholes6
- Silurian brachiopods Dictyonellida, Strophomenida, Productida, Orthotetida, Protorthida and Orthida from Estonia3
- The brachiopod succession through the Silurian–Devonian boundary beds at Dnistrove, Podolia, Ukraine1
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. 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
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No picture of Leptaena (Leptaena) altera 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 Leptaena (Leptaena) altera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Leptaena (Leptaena) altera 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 itLeptaena (Leptaena) through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Rybnikova 1966)