Laticrura
Dr L. Robin M. Cocks · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LinoporellidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 461.1 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
56 occurrences of Laticrura 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
56 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
25 formations
- Kangaroo Creek Formation11
- Fosses Formation7
- Kõrgessaare Formation3
- Ardwell Farm Formation · Ardwell Group3
- Dolhir Formation2
- Paekna Formation2
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The named rock units Laticrura has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Laticrura and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Laticrura and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
651 taxa- Skenidioides14 sites
- Platystrophia12 sites
- Leptaena10 sites
- Ptychopleurella uniplicata10 sites
- Sulevorthis parvicrassicostatus10 sites
- Oxoplecia plicata9 sites
- Skenidioides multifarius9 sites
- Hesperorthis8 sites
- Nicolella8 sites
- Phragmorthis buttsi8 sites
- Lingulella7 sites
- Portranella7 sites
- Strophomena7 sites
- Triplesia hintsae7 sites
- Anisopleurella6 sites
- Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) semirugata6 sites
- Glyptorthis6 sites
- Glyptorthis balclatchiensis6 sites
- Leptellina llandeiloensis6 sites
- Onniella jonesi6 sites
- Oxoplecia6 sites
- Ptychopleurella mediocostata6 sites
- Reuschella6 sites
- Scaphorthis6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 56 sites for Laticrura, 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
17 references- Middle and Late Ordovician brachiopods from the eastern Klamath Mountains, northern California14
- The Barr and lower Ardmillan series (Caradoc) of the Girvan District, south-west Ayrshire, with descriptions of the Brachiopoda10
- Late Ordovician (Ashgillian) brachiopods from the region of the Sambre and Meuse Rivers, Belgium7
- Ordovician brachiopods Enteletacea of the east baltic area7
- Chazyan and related brachiopods4
- Hulterstad brachiopods and associated faunas in the Vormsi Stage (Upper Ordovician, Katian) of the Lelle core, Central Estonia2
- The Ashgill rocks of the Glyn Ceirog district, North Wales2
- Upper Sandbian–lower Katian bio- and chemostratigraphy in the Pajevonys-13 core section, Lithuania1
- Late Ordovician brachiopods from west-central Alaska: systematics, ecology and palaeobiogeography1
- Late Ordovician (Katian) brachiopods from the Southern Uplands of Scotland: biogeographic patterns on the edge of Laurentia1
- Review of the Ordovician rhynchonelliformean Brachiopoda of the East Baltic: Their distribution and biofacies1
- Stratotype of the Porkuni Stage with comments on the Röa Member (uppermost Ordovician, Estonia)1
Each of the 56 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. 5 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 content1
Picture of Laticrura
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Dr L. Robin M. Cocks
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Laticrura was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itLinoporellidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper 1956