Leptaena paucirugata

Rõõmusoks · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LeptaenaPBDB
- 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 most 400 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.9 Mya and 449.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Leptaena paucirugata 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
9 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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 Leptaena paucirugata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Leptaena paucirugata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Leptaena paucirugata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Kiaeromena (Bekkeromena) vormsina8 sites
- Toxochasmops (Toxochasmops) vormsiensis4 sites
- Catenipora tapaensis3 sites
- Dinorthis (Plaesiomys) saxbyana2 sites
- Palaeodawsonocerina senckenbergi2 sites
- Paucicrura robusta2 sites
- Platystrophia saxbyensis2 sites
- Sampo hiiuensis2 sites
- Saxbyonia fluctuosa2 sites
- Vellamo verneuilii2 sites
- Boreadorthis recula1 site
- Bucania cornu1 site
- Codonophyllum bekkeri1 site
- Dinorthis (Plaesiomys) solaris1 site
- Diplotrypa petropolitana1 site
- Eoplectodonta moelsi1 site
- Gorbyoceras textumaraneum1 site
- Graptodictya obliqua1 site
- Harjumena1 site
- Holopea inaequistriata1 site
- Ilmarinia sinuata1 site
- Kenophyllum subcylindricum1 site
- Laticrura rostrata1 site
- Leigerina hiiuensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Leptaena paucirugata, 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
1 referenceEach of the 9 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 Leptaena paucirugata
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Rõõmusoks
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Leptaena paucirugata 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 through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Roomusoks 1989)