Leptocoelia

Leptocoelia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LeptocoeliidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Leptocoeliidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Leptocoeliidae
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Leptocoeliidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 42 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 41 of 42 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 42 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences432–429 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences422–419 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences419–416 Mya — about 1 occurrence416–414 Mya — about 1 occurrence414–411 Mya — about 15 occurrences411–409 Mya — about 7 occurrences409–406 Mya — about 2 occurrences406–404 Mya — about 2 occurrences404–401 Mya — about 2 occurrences401–398 Mya — about 2 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 2 occurrences396–393 Mya — about 2 occurrences393–391 Mya — about 2 occurrences391–388 Mya — about 2 occurrences388–386 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences386–383 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383–380 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences380–378 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences378–375 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences375–373 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences373–370 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences370–368 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences368–365 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences365–363 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences363–360 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences426.7 Mya393.47 Mya434 Mya357 Mya

42 occurrences of Leptocoelia 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

42 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

17 formations

Rabbit Hill Limestone — 39.20°N, 116.42°WRabbit Hill Limestone — 40.13°N, 116.40°WRabbit Hill Limestone — 38.92°N, 116.50°WMcColley Canyon — 40.13°N, 116.10°WMcColley Canyon — 40.16°N, 116.06°WMcColley Canyon — 39.93°N, 116.30°WCap Bon Ami — 48.88°N, 64.33°WOriskany Sandstone — 41.41°N, 75.66°WEsopus — 42.33°N, 74.17°WEsopus — 41.35°N, 74.11°WCano del Oeste — 10.50°N, 72.50°WPonta Grossa Shale — 7.00°S, 38.00°WRabbit Hill — 40.13°N, 116.40°WRabbit Hill — 39.20°N, 116.42°WGrande Greve — 48.88°N, 64.33°WHuntersville — 36.75°N, 82.25°WMount Ida — 36.77°S, 144.77°EMaradana Shale — 33.20°S, 148.68°ERinconada — 31.75°S, 69.83°WCano Grande — 10.50°N, 72.50°WMaecuru — 2.00°S, 54.00°WLittleton — 44.04°N, 71.79°WOriskany — 41.35°N, 74.11°W

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The named rock units Leptocoelia 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.

Leptocoelia and its relatives

Devonian

Where Leptocoelia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

364 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Leptocoelia, 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

17 references

Each of the 42 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. 5 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Leptocoelia

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iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itLeptocoeliidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.