Leptostega

No picture of Leptostega was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Leptostega, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HelcionellidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Helcionellidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Helcionellidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Helcionellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Helcionelloida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Helcionelloida

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 521 Mya to 503 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 525.5 Mya to 497 Mya.

Cambrian — about 12 of 12 occurrencesCambrian526–525 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences524–523 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences523–522 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences522–521 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences521–520 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences497–496 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences521 Mya503 Mya526.1 Mya496.4 Mya

12 occurrences of Leptostega 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

12 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

8 formations

Láncara — 42.58°N, 5.42°WPusa Shale — 39.65°N, 5.00°WEmyaksin — 70.72°N, 112.88°ETannenknock — 50.20°N, 11.56°EJbel Wawrmast — 30.67°N, 8.17°WKuonamka — 70.74°N, 112.98°ELower Comley — 52.56°N, 2.76°WDelitzsch — 51.62°N, 13.35°E

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The named rock units Leptostega has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Leptostega and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Leptostega and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

69 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Leptostega, 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

8 references

Each of the 12 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 content0

No picture of Leptostega was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Leptostega, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Leptostega 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itHelcionellidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Geyer 1986