Leptodesma (Leptodesma) potens

Searched as Leptodesma potens. The Paleobiology Database treats Leptodesma (Leptodesma) potens as the accepted name.

No picture of Leptodesma (Leptodesma) potens 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 Leptodesma (Leptodesma) potens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Leptodesma (Leptodesma)PBDB
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 67 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 315.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 306 Mya.

Devonian — about 5 of 9 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 4 of 9 occurrencesCarboniferous390–387 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences387–384 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences384–381 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences381–378 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences378–375 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences375–373 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences373–370 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences370–367 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences367–364 Mya — about 1 occurrence324–321 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences321–319 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences319–316 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences316–313 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences313–310 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences310–307 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences307–304 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences382.31 Mya315.2 Mya390 Mya304 Mya

9 occurrences of Leptodesma (Leptodesma) potens 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

9 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

5 formations

Piauí — 4.73°S, 42.60°WPiauí — 4.90°S, 42.61°WPiauí — 4.77°S, 42.58°WChemung — 37.72°N, 79.51°WChemung — 42.16°N, 78.98°WChadakoin — 42.22°N, 79.60°WChadakoin — 42.34°N, 79.34°WRío del Peñón — 28.60°S, 68.74°WGeneseo — 42.62°N, 75.41°W

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The named rock units Leptodesma (Leptodesma) potens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Leptodesma (Leptodesma) potens and its relatives

Devonian

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

Found in the same rock

42 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Leptodesma (Leptodesma) potens, 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

6 references

Each of the 9 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 Leptodesma (Leptodesma) potens 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 Leptodesma (Leptodesma) potens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Leptodesma (Leptodesma) potens 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.

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What may have been alongside itLeptodesma (Leptodesma) through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1883)