Longiscula

Longiscula

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BairdiocyprididaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 464.3 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 413.02 Mya.

Ordovician — about 13 of 17 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 2 of 17 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 2 of 17 occurrencesDevonian472–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 1 occurrence454–452 Mya — about 2 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 3 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 4 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences420–418 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences418–416 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences416–414 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences464.3 Mya419.62 Mya472 Mya412 Mya

17 occurrences of Longiscula 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

17 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

10 formations

Linxiang — 33.00°N, 111.00°ESubica — 48.58°N, 26.82°EGuniutan — 33.00°N, 111.00°EEmpozadense — 33.00°S, 69.00°WPetropavlovsk Suite — 60.15°N, 59.96°EShemaha — 55.00°N, 60.00°EJaani — 58.54°N, 23.44°EVarlyginskaya — 58.43°N, 40.94°EObukhovskaya — 58.13°N, 32.27°EPribuzhskaya — 57.64°N, 27.91°E

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The named rock units Longiscula 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.

Longiscula and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Longiscula and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

276 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Longiscula, 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 17 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 Longiscula

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow 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 itBairdiocyprididae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Neckaja 1958