Leptomitella conica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LeptomitellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Leptomitella
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Leptomitella
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Leptomitella
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
Time the record covers
At most 33 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 506.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Leptomitella conica on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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- Cambrian100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Leptomitella conica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Leptomitella conica and its relatives
CambrianWhere Leptomitella conica and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
102 taxa- Paraleptomitella dictyodroma8 sites
- Heliomedusa orienta7 sites
- Isoxys auritus7 sites
- Misszhouia longicaudata7 sites
- Branchiocaris yunnanensis6 sites
- Kunmingella douvillei6 sites
- Leptomitus teretiusculus6 sites
- Saetaspongia densa6 sites
- Amplectobelua symbrachiata5 sites
- Choiaella radiata5 sites
- Cricocosmia jinningensis5 sites
- Eoglossa chengjiangensis5 sites
- Eoredlichia intermediata5 sites
- Isoxys paradoxus5 sites
- Leanchoilia illecebrosa5 sites
- Mafangscolex sinensis5 sites
- Naraoia spinosa5 sites
- Yunnanocephalus yunnanensis5 sites
- Archotuba conoidalis4 sites
- Canadaspis laevigata4 sites
- Fuxianhuia protensa4 sites
- Hazelia4 sites
- Naraoia4 sites
- Selkirkia sinica4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Leptomitella conica, 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- Diversity and species abundance patterns of the early Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3) Chengjiang Biota from China4
- Spatial variation in the diversity and composition of the Lower Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3) Chengjiang Biota, Southwest China2
- Taphonomy and Palaeoecology of the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota from Eastern Yunnan, China2
- Composition and tiering of the Cambrian sponge communities1
- Lower Cambrian pediculate lingulids from Yunnan, China1
- Lower Cambrian leptomitids (Demospongea), Chengjiang, Yunnan1
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
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No picture of Leptomitella conica 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 Leptomitella conica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Leptomitella conica 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 itLeptomitella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chen et al. 1989