Leptoplastides

Leptoplastides

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PelturinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Olenidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 9.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 477.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 473.8 Mya.

Cambrian — about 38 of 169 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 131 of 169 occurrencesOrdovician498–497 Mya — about 1 occurrence497–496 Mya — about 3 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 3 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 3 occurrences494–493 Mya — about 3 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 3 occurrences493–492 Mya — about 3 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 3 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 3 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 3 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 3 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 3 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 3 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 6 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 11 occurrences485–485 Mya — about 11 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 11 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 11 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 11 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 11 occurrences481–481 Mya — about 11 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 11 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 11 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 11 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 11 occurrences477–477 Mya — about 3 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486.85 Mya477.1 Mya497.5 Mya473.3 Mya

169 occurrences of Leptoplastides on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

169 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

32 formations

Santa Rosita — 24.00°S, 65.00°WSanta Rosita — 24.00°S, 66.00°WSanta Rosita — 23.61°S, 65.35°WSanta Rosita — 23.47°S, 65.34°WSanta Rosita — 23.58°S, 65.34°WSanta Rosita — 23.36°S, 65.34°WSanta Rosita — 22.76°S, 65.20°WSanta Rosita — 22.66°S, 65.17°WSanta Rosita — 22.51°S, 65.10°WKistedal — 70.64°N, 28.00°EKistedal — 70.62°N, 28.18°ELampazar — 23.00°S, 66.00°WLampazar — 23.15°S, 65.60°WLampazar — 23.17°S, 65.44°WLampazar — 23.54°S, 65.41°WLampazar — 23.62°S, 65.69°WLampazar — 22.92°S, 66.62°WKlonowka — 50.90°N, 20.79°ECwmhesgen — 52.86°N, 3.81°WKlonowka Shale — 50.88°N, 20.95°EBreadstone Shales — 51.71°N, 2.42°WCardonal — 23.00°S, 66.00°WCardonal — 24.92°S, 65.50°WCardonal — 24.63°S, 65.74°WTinu — 17.37°N, 97.17°WTinu — 17.47°N, 97.23°WShineton Shales — 52.63°N, 2.58°WShineton Shales — 52.63°N, 2.66°WGuanacuna — 17.62°S, 62.22°WGuanacuna — 22.00°S, 65.00°WAzul Pampa — 22.95°S, 65.43°WAzul Pampa — 22.95°S, 65.42°WVal d'Homs — 43.00°N, 3.00°EDevendeus — 24.25°S, 65.86°WDevendeus — 24.54°S, 65.74°WHabberley — 52.55°N, 2.98°WShineton Shale — 52.63°N, 2.58°WTaraya — 22.03°S, 65.35°WTucumilla — 21.00°S, 65.00°WGuanacuno — 22.08°S, 65.00°WTarija Concha — 21.00°S, 65.00°WGuapayito — 3.57°N, 73.77°WFloresta — 22.96°S, 65.43°WSan Rosita — 23.59°S, 65.35°WLower Fezouata — 30.68°N, 6.18°W

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The named rock units Leptoplastides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 39 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Leptoplastides and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Leptoplastides and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

275 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 151 sites for Leptoplastides, 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

38 references

Each of the 169 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. 26 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 Leptoplastides

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Leptoplastides 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Raw 1908