Leptoplastides salteri
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LeptoplastidesPBDB
- 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 most 9.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 477.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Leptoplastides salteri 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
5 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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 Leptoplastides salteri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Leptoplastides salteri and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Leptoplastides salteri and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
57 taxa- Geragnostus3 sites
- Macropyge3 sites
- Platypeltoides croftii3 sites
- Asaphellus homfrayi2 sites
- Conophrys pusilla2 sites
- Dichelepyge2 sites
- Hyolithes2 sites
- Lingulella2 sites
- Macrocystella mariae2 sites
- Orometopus2 sites
- Orthotheca2 sites
- Parabolinella2 sites
- Proteuloma2 sites
- Protospongia2 sites
- Strepsodiscus shinetonensis2 sites
- Adelograptus tenellus1 site
- Agnostus1 site
- Anatifopsis1 site
- Anglagnostus dux1 site
- Apatokephalus sarculum1 site
- Apatokephalus serratus1 site
- Archaeorthis wimani1 site
- Asaphellus1 site
- Asaphus homfrayi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Leptoplastides salteri, 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
4 references- The Shineton Shales of the Wrekin District2
- First occurrence of articulated specimens of the trilobite family Olenidae from Morocco1
- A trilobite fauna from the highest Shineton Shales in Shropshire, and the correlation of the latest Tremadoc1
- The trilobite fauna of the Shineton Shales1
Each of the 5 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 Leptoplastides salteri 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 Leptoplastides salteri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Leptoplastides salteri 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 itLeptoplastides through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Callaway 1877)