Leptomitus zitteli
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LeptomitusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Leptomitus
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Leptomitus
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Leptomitus
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
Time the record covers
At most 8.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 515.3 Mya and 506.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Leptomitus zitteli 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
2 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Leptomitus zitteli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Leptomitus zitteli and its relatives
CambrianWhere Leptomitus zitteli and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Protocaris marshi2 sites
- Protospongia hicksi2 sites
- Tuzoia polleni2 sites
- Amplectobeluidae1 site
- Anomalocaris emmonsi1 site
- Bathynotus holopygus1 site
- Bonnia bubaris1 site
- Emmonsaspis cambrensis1 site
- Emmonsaspis cambriensis1 site
- Herpetogaster1 site
- Kootenia1 site
- Mesonacis vermontanus1 site
- Nisusia1 site
- Olenellus agellus1 site
- Olenellus crassimarginatus1 site
- Olenellus georgiensis1 site
- Olenellus thompsoni1 site
- Ottoia1 site
- Paedeumias transitans1 site
- Pagetides1 site
- Protypus hitchcocki1 site
- Wimanella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Leptomitus zitteli, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- The soft-bodied biota of the Cambrian Series 2 Parker Quarry Lagerstätte of northwestern Vermont, USA1
- Early Cambrian sponges from Vermont and Pennsylvania, the only ones described from North America1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Leptomitus zitteli 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 Leptomitus zitteli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Leptomitus zitteli was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itLeptomitus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1886