Similoleptaena planitia
No picture of Similoleptaena planitia 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 Similoleptaena planitia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LeptaenaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Leptaena
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Leptaena
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Leptaena
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.5 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Similoleptaena planitia 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
6 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Similoleptaena planitia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Similoleptaena planitia and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Similoleptaena planitia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Anthozoa2 sites
- Brachiopoda indet.2 sites
- Bryozoa indet.2 sites
- Cephalopoda2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Hebertella estonica2 sites
- Luhaia vardi2 sites
- Rugosa indet.2 sites
- Similoleptaena pertenuis2 sites
- Stromatoporoidea indet.2 sites
- Tabulata2 sites
- Brachytomaria baltica1 site
- Cornulites1 site
- Diplotrypa1 site
- Elsaella bekkeri1 site
- Geniculina pseudoalternata1 site
- Pirgumena martnai1 site
- Protoheliolites1 site
- Rowewella sp.1 site
- Valdariops eichwaldi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Similoleptaena planitia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 6 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Similoleptaena planitia 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 Similoleptaena planitia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Similoleptaena planitia 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 itLeptaena through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roomusoks 2004