Leptodesma (Leiopteria)

A picture published with the record for Leptodesma (Leiopteria).

Christian Franke · CC0 · 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
LeptodesmaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pterineidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pterineidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Pterineidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 178 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 263 occurrencesSilurian — about 25 of 263 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 188 of 263 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 20 of 263 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 30 of 263 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 263 occurrences447–440 Mya — about 1 occurrence440–434 Mya — about 3 occurrences434–427 Mya — about 9 occurrences427–420 Mya — about 10 occurrences420–414 Mya — about 14 occurrences414–407 Mya — about 7 occurrences407–401 Mya — about 6 occurrences401–394 Mya — about 5 occurrences394–387 Mya — about 22 occurrences387–381 Mya — about 89 occurrences381–374 Mya — about 36 occurrences374–367 Mya — about 12 occurrences367–361 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences361–354 Mya — about 1 occurrence354–348 Mya — about 2 occurrences348–341 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences341–334 Mya — about 5 occurrences334–328 Mya — about 3 occurrences328–321 Mya — about 5 occurrences321–314 Mya — about 1 occurrence314–308 Mya — about 2 occurrences308–301 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences301–294 Mya — about 2 occurrences294–288 Mya — about 4 occurrences288–281 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences281–275 Mya — about 3 occurrences275–268 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences268–261 Mya — about 6 occurrences261–255 Mya — about 6 occurrences255–248 Mya — about 8 occurrences432.9 Mya254.14 Mya447 Mya248 Mya

263 occurrences of Leptodesma (Leiopteria) 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

263 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

83 formations

Moscow — 42.82°N, 78.68°WMoscow — 42.59°N, 74.70°WMoscow — 42.56°N, 74.58°WMoscow — 42.57°N, 74.54°WMoscow — 42.83°N, 75.78°WMoscow — 42.79°N, 76.15°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 76.03°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 75.91°WMoscow — 42.66°N, 75.38°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 75.58°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 75.48°WMoscow — 42.57°N, 75.05°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.82°WMoscow — 42.52°N, 74.86°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 77.57°WMoscow — 42.78°N, 77.33°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 76.95°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.60°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.50°WGlen Aubrey — 42.31°N, 76.07°WGlen Aubrey — 42.16°N, 75.83°WGlen Aubrey — 42.17°N, 76.05°WGlen Aubrey — 42.11°N, 75.85°WGlen Aubrey — 42.20°N, 75.68°WGlen Aubrey — 42.23°N, 75.53°WGlen Aubrey — 42.32°N, 75.75°WGlen Aubrey — 42.28°N, 75.70°WGlen Aubrey — 42.37°N, 76.35°WGeneseo — 42.33°N, 74.45°WGeneseo — 42.67°N, 75.59°WGeneseo — 42.54°N, 75.21°WGeneseo — 42.62°N, 75.37°WGeneseo — 42.53°N, 74.93°WGeneseo — 42.65°N, 75.39°WGeneseo — 42.63°N, 75.35°WGeneseo — 42.64°N, 75.77°WSilica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WChemung — 40.55°N, 77.62°WChemung — 42.92°N, 76.46°WChemung — 42.20°N, 76.73°WChemung — 42.17°N, 76.58°WChemung — 42.67°N, 76.92°WChemung — 42.20°N, 75.95°WChemung — 42.10°N, 76.53°WChemung — 41.72°N, 76.71°WLudlowville — 42.78°N, 78.79°WLudlowville — 42.80°N, 77.27°WLudlowville — 42.90°N, 78.22°WLudlowville — 43.00°N, 79.00°WLudlowville — 42.77°N, 76.71°WLudlowville — 42.73°N, 76.71°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 76.15°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 76.14°WSkaneateles — 42.90°N, 76.29°WSkaneateles — 42.87°N, 75.56°WMahantango — 40.50°N, 77.25°WMahantango — 40.05°N, 77.52°WMahantango — 40.42°N, 77.17°WMahantango — 39.86°N, 78.35°WSnyder Creek Shale — 38.75°N, 91.88°WSnyder Creek Shale — 38.74°N, 91.96°WSnyder Creek Shale — 38.83°N, 91.82°WSnyder Creek Shale — 38.81°N, 91.98°WMcIvor — 34.08°S, 151.02°EMcIvor — 37.00°S, 144.00°EStainmore — 54.99°N, 1.62°WStainmore — 55.00°N, 1.75°WMount Ida — 36.77°S, 144.77°EMount Ida — 37.00°S, 144.00°EGarra — 33.95°S, 148.82°EKartal — 40.90°N, 29.18°EAouinet Ouenine II — 28.08°N, 13.00°ESama — 43.30°N, 5.68°WBonete — 37.99°S, 61.78°WBonete — 38.13°S, 61.74°WLekvorkuta — 66.60°N, 60.55°ELekvorkuta — 66.25°N, 58.72°ERochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.62°WRochester Shale — 39.65°N, 78.76°WOnondaga — 39.65°N, 78.76°WOnondaga — 43.00°N, 76.07°WMillport equivalent — 42.70°N, 74.93°WMarcellus — 42.65°N, 74.02°WMarcellus — 41.22°N, 74.82°WTriangle — 42.38°N, 75.58°WTriangle — 42.33°N, 75.77°WMaecuru — 2.00°S, 54.00°WMaecuru — 1.00°S, 55.00°W

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The named rock units Leptodesma (Leiopteria) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 59 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 52 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Leptodesma (Leiopteria) and its relatives

Devonian

Where Leptodesma (Leiopteria) and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

2,093 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 234 sites for Leptodesma (Leiopteria), 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

81 references

Each of the 263 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. 69 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

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Picture of Leptodesma (Leiopteria)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Christian Franke
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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1883)