Palaeoleptostrophia compressa

No picture of Palaeoleptostrophia compressa 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 Palaeoleptostrophia compressa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalaeoleptostrophiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Leptostrophiidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Leptostrophiidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Leptostrophiidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 2.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 440.8 Mya to 438.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 432.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 9 occurrencesSilurian — about 9 of 9 occurrencesSilurian443–443 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440.8 Mya438.6 Mya443.6 Mya432.4 Mya

9 occurrences of Palaeoleptostrophia compressa 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

9 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

3 formations

Damery Beds — 51.88°N, 2.23°WTortworth Beds — 51.88°N, 2.23°WTamsalu — 58.99°N, 26.35°E

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The named rock units Palaeoleptostrophia compressa 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.

Palaeoleptostrophia compressa and its relatives

Silurian

Where Palaeoleptostrophia compressa and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

118 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Palaeoleptostrophia compressa, 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

3 references

Each of the 9 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 Palaeoleptostrophia compressa 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 Palaeoleptostrophia compressa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Palaeoleptostrophia compressa 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 itPalaeoleptostrophia through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (de Sowerby and Murchison 1839)