Leptochiton terryiverseni
No picture of Leptochiton terryiverseni 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 Leptochiton terryiverseni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LeptochitonPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Polyplacophora
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Polyplacophora
- Motility
- facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Polyplacophora
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Polyplacophora
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Polyplacophora
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 41.03 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Leptochiton terryiverseni on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
1 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Leptochiton terryiverseni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Leptochiton terryiverseni and its relatives
EoceneWhere Leptochiton terryiverseni and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Colus1 site
- Depressigyra1 site
- Desbruyeresia belliatus1 site
- Discinisca1 site
- Echnoidea indet.1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Hyalogyrina1 site
- Nuculana acutilineata1 site
- Orbitestella dioi1 site
- Provanna fortis1 site
- Serpulidae1 site
- Thalassonerita eocenica1 site
- Thyasira1 site
- Vesicomyidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Leptochiton terryiverseni, 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 1 occurrence 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 Leptochiton terryiverseni 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 Leptochiton terryiverseni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Leptochiton terryiverseni 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 itLeptochiton through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hybertsen and Kiel 2018