Litanaia
No picture of Litanaia 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 Litanaia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CodiaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Bryopsidales
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Bryopsidales
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Bryopsidales
- Environment
- lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Chlorophyta
Time the record covers
At least 38 million years on record.
The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 372.15 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 358.86 Mya.
14 occurrences of Litanaia on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
14 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
6 formations
- Nubrigyn Formation3
- Plabutsch Formation1
- Southesk Formation1
- Windjana Limestone Formation1
- Santa Lucia Formation1
- Hagen-Balve Formation1
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The named rock units Litanaia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Litanaia and its relatives
DevonianWhere Litanaia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
109 taxa- Lancicula wolfi2 sites
- ? Resteignella sp.1 site
- Abacella delicatula1 site
- Actinopterygii1 site
- Alveolites1 site
- Alveolites pseudorbicularis1 site
- Amphipora1 site
- Angochitina1 site
- Atrypidae1 site
- Aulopora1 site
- Belodella resima1 site
- Bicarina1 site
- Binoleniceras stichlingi1 site
- Bipennatus bipennatus1 site
- Bryozoa indet.1 site
- Calcitarcha indet.1 site
- Caliapora1 site
- Clathrocoilona1 site
- Clathrocoilona (Clathrocoilona)1 site
- Clathrocoilona (Clathrocoilona) spissa1 site
- Clathrocoilona obliterata1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Cryptostomata1 site
- Cupressocrinitidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Litanaia, 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
10 references- Lower Devonian algae and encrusting foraminifera from New South Wales3
- Lower Devonian reef structures in Russia: an example from the Urals2
- Wenlockian to Emsian communities of the Carnic Alps (Austria and Italy)2
- The initial phase of the Hönne Valley Reef at Binolen (northern Rhenish Massif, Middle Devonian)1
- Palaeoecology of a post-extinction reef: Famennian (Late Devonian) of the Canning Basin, North-Western Australia1
- Ecology of Early Devonian reefs in the Western Urals, Russia1
- Devonian udoteacean green algae from the Cantabrian Mountains (Santa Lucia Formation), NW Spain1
- Ablagerungsraum, Mikrofazies und Paläoökologie der Barrandeikalk-Formation (Eifelium) des Grazer Paläozoikums [Sedimentary environment, microfacies and paleoecology of the Barrandei Limestone (Eifelian) of the Graz Paleozoic (Austria)]1
- Mittel bis oberdevonische Karbonate auf Blatt Weilburg (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge) und in Randgebieten: Initialstadien der Riffentwicklung auf Vulkanschwellen1
- Stromatoporoid assemblages, Ancient Wall Reef Complex (Devonian), Alberta1
Each of the 14 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
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No picture of Litanaia 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 Litanaia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Litanaia 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCodiaceae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Maslov 1956