Leaia buntschiana

No picture of Leaia buntschiana 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 Leaia buntschiana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LeaiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, detritivorePBDB, for Branchiopoda
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Branchiopoda
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Branchiopoda
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Branchiopoda
Environment
marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Branchiopoda

Time the record covers

At least 600 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 315.2 Mya to 314.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 307.4 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 4 of 4 occurrencesCarboniferous324–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences315–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences314–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences315.2 Mya – 314.6 Mya323.9 Mya306.9 Mya

4 occurrences of Leaia buntschiana on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

4 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

1 formation

Lower Saarbrucker layer — 49.24°N, 6.99°E

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The named rock units Leaia buntschiana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Leaia buntschiana and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Leaia buntschiana and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

6 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Leaia buntschiana, 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

2 references

Each of the 4 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 Leaia buntschiana 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 Leaia buntschiana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Leaia buntschiana 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.

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What may have been alongside itLeaia through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Beyrich 1864