Limnadia

Searched as Limnadia sp.. The Paleobiology Database treats Limnadia as the accepted name.

Limnadia

Georg Ossian Sars (1837-1927) · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LimnadiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, detritivorePBDB, for Branchiopoda
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Branchiopoda
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Branchiopoda
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Branchiopoda
Environment
marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Branchiopoda

Time the record covers

At most 48 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 298.9 Mya and 251.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPermian — about 1 of 3 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 2 of 3 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences295–293 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences282–280 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences280–278 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences277–275 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences275–273 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences272–270 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences267–265 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences265–263 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences262–260 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences260–258 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences257–255 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences252–250 Mya — about 2 occurrences299.9 Mya250.1 Mya

3 occurrences of Limnadia on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

3 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

2 formations

Yekchan — 61.90°N, 144.93°EBoda — 46.07°N, 18.00°E

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

Limnadia and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Limnadia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

11 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Limnadia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

Each of the 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Limnadia

Credit
Georg Ossian Sars (1837-1927)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Limnadia 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 itLimnadiidae through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brongniart 1840