Levipustula levis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LevipustulaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Productidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Productidina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Productidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 318.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 307.4 Mya.
52 occurrences of Levipustula levis on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
52 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
- Poperima Formation34
- Branch Creek Formation8
- Yagon Siltstone Formation5
- Leoncito Formation2
- La Capilla Formation1
- Booral Formation1
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The named rock units Levipustula levis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Levipustula levis and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Levipustula levis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
68 taxa- Spinuliplica spinulosa9 sites
- Booralia ovata6 sites
- Fenestella malchii6 sites
- Streblochondria histion6 sites
- Kitakamithyris booralensis5 sites
- Polypora neerkolensis5 sites
- Fenestella micropora4 sites
- Fenestella osbornei4 sites
- Fistulamina dispersa4 sites
- Alispirifer contractus3 sites
- Alispirifer laminosus3 sites
- Athyris3 sites
- Schizodus3 sites
- Spirifer3 sites
- Spirifer liangchowensis3 sites
- Spiriferellina neerkolensis3 sites
- Beecheria2 sites
- Cladochonus tenuicollis2 sites
- Composita magnicarina2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Fenestella2 sites
- Fistulamina2 sites
- Limipecten2 sites
- Limipecten flexiauricularis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 52 sites for Levipustula levis, 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
5 references- The geology of the Yarrol Region. Part 1. Biostratigraphy39
- Late Carboniferous marine invertebrate zones of eastern Australia9
- Late Carboniferous Levipustula Fauna in the Leoncito Formation, San Juan Province, Argentine Precordillera: Biostratigraphical and palaeoclimatological implications2
- Comparative taphonomy and paleoecology of a glaciomarine fauna, Carboniferous (Westphalian - Namurian) La Capilla Fm., Argentina1
- Marine fossils from the Carboniferous glacial rocks of New South Wales1
Each of the 52 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 content1
Picture of Levipustula levis
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itLevipustula through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Maxwell 1951