Leptochonetes
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StrophochonetinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Chonetidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Chonetidina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Chonetidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 399.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 382.31 Mya.
11 occurrences of Leptochonetes on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
11 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
6 formations
- Slivenec Limestone Formation · Branik Limestone Group2
- Daleje-Třebotov Formation1
- Daleje-Trebotov Formation1
- Zlichov Limestone Formation1
- Lochkow Formation1
- Praha Formation1
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The named rock units Leptochonetes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Leptochonetes and its relatives
DevonianWhere Leptochonetes and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
439 taxa- Nowakia7 sites
- Caplinoplia6 sites
- Cingulodermis6 sites
- Areostrophia5 sites
- Leonaspis5 sites
- Merista5 sites
- Plectodonta (Dalejodiscus)5 sites
- Protoleptostrophia5 sites
- Rugoleptaena5 sites
- Strophochonetes5 sites
- Amoenospirifer4 sites
- Platyscutellum4 sites
- Quadrithyris4 sites
- Reedops prospicens4 sites
- Reedops sternbergi4 sites
- Septalaria4 sites
- Amissopecten3 sites
- Bojocoryphe splendens3 sites
- Bojothyris3 sites
- Carinatina3 sites
- Ceratocephala3 sites
- Clorinda3 sites
- Crinoidea3 sites
- Cyrtina3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Leptochonetes, 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
5 references- The Bohemian Lower Devonian Stages4
- The Lochkovian-Pragian boundary in the Lower Devonian of the Barrandian area (Czechoslovakia)3
- Sedimentology, benthic communities, and brachiopods in the Suchomasty (Dalejan) and Acanthopyge (Eifelian) Limestones of the Koneprusy area (Czechoslovakia)2
- Silurian and Lochkovian communities in the Prague basin (Barrandian area, Czech Republic)1
- Trilobite assemblages in the Devonian of the Barrandian area and their relations to palaeoenvironments1
Each of the 11 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
Media content0
No picture of Leptochonetes was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Leptochonetes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Leptochonetes was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itStrophochonetinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.