Levisulculus
No picture of Levisulculus 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 Levisulculus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TvaerenellinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At most 7.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Levisulculus 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
6 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Levisulculus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Levisulculus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Levisulculus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
101 taxa- Krausella6 sites
- Punctaparchites rugosus6 sites
- Eurychilina5 sites
- Tetradella5 sites
- Bairdiocypris4 sites
- Diplopsis socialis4 sites
- Monoceratella4 sites
- Aechmina3 sites
- Byrsolopsina3 sites
- Oepikium3 sites
- Saccelatia3 sites
- Schmidtella3 sites
- Aparchites2 sites
- Ceratopsis2 sites
- Dicranella2 sites
- Glymmatobolbina2 sites
- Hyperchilarina2 sites
- Laccochilina (Prochilina)2 sites
- Longiscula2 sites
- Thomasatia2 sites
- Actinoceras aequale1 site
- Anazyga1 site
- Apatochilina1 site
- Aulopora1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Levisulculus, 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
2 references- Ordovician Ostracoda, southeastern District of Franklin5
- A Middle Ordovician fauna from Braeside, Ottawa Valley, Ontario1
Each of the 6 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Levisulculus 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 Levisulculus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Levisulculus 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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What may have been alongside itTvaerenellinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.