Leptochondria virgalensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LeptochondriaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Pectinida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 241.464 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 254.14 Mya to 239.48 Mya.

Permian — about 5 of 21 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 15 of 21 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 21 occurrencesMiddle Triassic255–254 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 1 occurrence254–253 Mya — about 1 occurrence253–253 Mya — about 1 occurrence253–252 Mya — about 1 occurrence252–252 Mya — about 5 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 5 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences251.902 Mya241.464 Mya254.6 Mya239 Mya

21 occurrences of Leptochondria virgalensis on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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

21 occurrences

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

9 formations

Feixianguan — 25.94°N, 104.50°EFeixianguan — 28.96°N, 106.92°EFeixianguan — 29.49°N, 106.40°EFeixianguan — 24.94°N, 104.69°EFeixianguan — 26.02°N, 104.67°EHuangzhishan — 30.92°N, 119.99°EDaye — 30.49°N, 107.00°EChangxing — 29.91°N, 106.52°EMianwali — 32.66°N, 71.80°EMianwali — 32.96°N, 71.20°EOro — 35.45°N, 135.32°ELongtan — 26.14°N, 105.28°ESunjiagou — 34.57°N, 107.63°EKirchaou — 33.41°N, 10.42°E

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The named rock units Leptochondria virgalensis 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.

Leptochondria virgalensis and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Leptochondria virgalensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

140 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Leptochondria virgalensis, 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

14 references

Each of the 21 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. 2 further references are not listed. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Leptochondria virgalensis 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 Leptochondria virgalensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Leptochondria virgalensis was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was 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 itLeptochondria through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wittenburg 1908