Leptosalenia

Leptosalenia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SaleniiniPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Salenioida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Salenioida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Salenioida
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 35 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 83.6 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 14 of 17 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 17 occurrencesLate Cretaceous127–125 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 1 occurrence119–118 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 1 occurrence105–103 Mya — about 1 occurrence103–102 Mya — about 1 occurrence102–100 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 1 occurrence84–83 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences121.4 Mya85.7 Mya126.6 Mya82.8 Mya

17 occurrences of Leptosalenia on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

17 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

7 formations

Risan Aneiza — 31.00°N, 33.50°ERisan Aneiza — 30.79°N, 33.48°EQishn — 14.30°N, 48.49°EQishn — 14.55°N, 48.04°ERiacheulo — 10.76°S, 37.08°WMatulla — 28.65°N, 33.24°ECotinguiba — 11.00°S, 37.31°WCotinguiba — 10.76°S, 37.08°WHalal — 30.79°N, 33.48°EBenassal — 40.27°N, 0.24°E

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The named rock units Leptosalenia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Leptosalenia and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Leptosalenia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

179 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Leptosalenia, 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

9 references

Each of the 17 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 content2

Picture of Leptosalenia

Credit
Ecphora
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itSaleniini through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Smith and Wright 1990