Retispira leda

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RetispiraPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Bellerophontidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Bellerophontidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Bellerophontidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida
Time the record covers
At least 5.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 382.31 Mya.
48 occurrences of Retispira leda 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
48 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
7 formations
- Moscow Formation · Hamilton Group21
- Ludlowville Formation · Hamilton Group10
- Marcellus Formation · Hamilton Group7
- Skaneateles Formation · Hamilton Group5
- Oatka Formation · Marcellus Group2
- Tully Formation · Tully Group1
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The named rock units Retispira leda has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Retispira leda and its relatives
DevonianWhere Retispira leda and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
255 taxa- Mucrospirifer mucronatus18 sites
- Eldredgeops rana17 sites
- Dictyotomaria capillaria15 sites
- Mediospirifer audaculus15 sites
- Palaeoneilo constricta15 sites
- Palaeozygopleura hamiltoniae15 sites
- Nuculites14 sites
- Tropidoleptus carinatus14 sites
- Ambocoelia umbonata13 sites
- Athyris spiriferoides13 sites
- Palaeoneilo12 sites
- Devonochonetes scitulus11 sites
- Rhipidomella vanuxemi11 sites
- Calvibembexia sulcomarginata10 sites
- Devonochonetes coronatus10 sites
- Floweria arctostriata10 sites
- Greenops boothi10 sites
- Nuculites oblongatus10 sites
- Carydium9 sites
- Protoleptostrophia perplana9 sites
- Cypricardella bellistriata8 sites
- Elita fimbriata8 sites
- Leptodesma (Leiopteria)8 sites
- Longispina8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Retispira leda, 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
14 references- The Dynamics of Rapid, Asynchronous Biotic Turnover in the Middle Devonian Appalachian Basin of New York11
- Relative taxonomic and ecological stability in Devonian marine faunas of New York State: a test of coordinated stasis8
- Gastropoda and Monoplacophora of the Solsville member (Middle Devonian, Marcellus Formation) in the Chenango Valley, New York State6
- The classification and distribution of the Hamilton and Chemung series of central and eastern New York6
- Field notes and samples, published, in part, "New perspectives on transitions between ecological-evolutionary subunits in the "type interval" for coordinated stasis", James J Zambito IV, Carlton E Brett, Gordon C Baird, Sarah E Kolbe, Arnold I Miller; Paleobiology3
- Comparative Taphonomy and Paleoecology of Middle Devonian Dark Gray and Black Shale Facies from Western New York3
- Marcasite fauna in the Ludlowville Formation of western New York3
- Depositional Environments and Sequences, "Pleurodictyum Zone," Ludlowville Formation of Western New York2
- Work with Thayer collections, Yale Peabody Accession 7112, published, in part, "New perspectives on transitions between ecological-evolutionary subunits in the "type interval" for coordinated stasis", James J Zambito IV, Carlton E Brett, Gordon C Baird, Sarah E Kolbe, Arnold I Miller; Paleobiology1
- A test of a new technique illustrating faunal dominance trends: Application to the “Trilobite Beds” interval of the Middle Devonian Wanakah Shale in western New York1
- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Jaycox Shale Member, Hamilton Group of the Finger Lakes Region of New York State1
- Regional variation and paleontology of two coral beds in the Middle Devonian Hamilton Group of Western New York1
Each of the 48 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Retispira leda
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3D model
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What may have been alongside itRetispira through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1859)