Longstaffia

No picture of Longstaffia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Longstaffia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LophospiridaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Murchisoniina
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Murchisoniina
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 279 million years on record.

The record covers at least 440.5 Mya to 161.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 154.8 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 19 occurrencesSilurian — about 18 of 19 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 19 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 19 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 19 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 19 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 19 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 19 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 19 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 19 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 19 occurrences449–439 Mya — about 8 occurrences439–429 Mya — about 5 occurrences429–419 Mya — about 5 occurrences169–159 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences159–149 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences440.5 Mya161.5 Mya449 Mya149 Mya

19 occurrences of Longstaffia on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

19 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

9 formations

Upper Visby — 57.50°N, 18.55°EKopanina — 49.97°N, 14.17°EKopanina — 49.93°N, 14.05°EKopanina — 50.05°N, 14.42°EPower Glen — 43.11°N, 79.28°WBeechhill Cove — 45.62°N, 61.97°WPentamerus Sandstone — 52.00°N, 3.00°WPentamerus Sandstone — 52.72°N, 2.75°WKlinteberg Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EMuch Wenlock Limestone — 52.50°N, 2.08°WBrassfield — 37.63°N, 84.16°WHemse — 57.45°N, 18.71°E

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The named rock units Longstaffia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Longstaffia and its relatives

Silurian

Where Longstaffia and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

345 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Longstaffia, 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

Each of the 19 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 content0

No picture of Longstaffia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Longstaffia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Longstaffia 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 itLophospiridae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cossmann 1908