Leangella scissa

No picture of Leangella scissa was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Leangella scissa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.2 Mya to 433.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.2 Mya to 431.2 Mya.

Ordovician — about 8 of 215 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 207 of 215 occurrencesSilurian450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 1 occurrence445–444 Mya — about 1 occurrence444–443 Mya — about 1 occurrence443–443 Mya — about 20 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 34 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 34 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 34 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 27 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 19 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 19 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 10 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445.2 Mya433.5 Mya449.7 Mya430.7 Mya

215 occurrences of Leangella scissa 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

215 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

20 formations

Solvik — 59.92°N, 10.75°ESolvik — 60.17°N, 10.30°ESolvik — 59.83°N, 10.43°ESolvik — 59.82°N, 10.46°ESolvik — 59.86°N, 10.56°ECrychan — 52.12°N, 3.55°WTrefawr — 52.12°N, 3.55°WMynaral — 45.28°N, 73.71°EMynaral — 45.36°N, 73.73°EÕhne — 58.36°N, 25.57°EÕhne — 58.50°N, 26.32°EÕhne — 58.36°N, 23.86°EÕhne — 58.28°N, 24.09°EÕhne — 57.80°N, 23.24°EBronydd — 52.12°N, 3.55°WSaarde — 58.14°N, 25.37°ESaarde — 58.54°N, 24.82°ESaarde — 58.39°N, 24.50°ESaarde — 57.80°N, 23.24°EDolhir — 52.93°N, 3.18°WKuldiga — 56.22°N, 21.20°EDobele — 55.74°N, 23.11°EDobele — 55.22°N, 22.25°EVarbola — 58.69°N, 25.63°ETonalee — 53.58°N, 9.52°WTommarp — 58.38°N, 13.71°ENewlands — 55.31°N, 4.70°WGözdag — 40.98°N, 29.34°ERawtheyan Mudstone — 51.83°N, 3.58°WNurmekund — 58.00°N, 22.03°EVelise — 57.80°N, 23.24°ERaikküla — 57.88°N, 24.37°EJaani — 58.28°N, 24.09°E

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The named rock units Leangella scissa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 123 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Leangella scissa and its relatives

Silurian

Where Leangella scissa and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

417 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 215 sites for Leangella scissa, 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

21 references

Each of the 215 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. 9 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 content0

No picture of Leangella scissa was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Leangella scissa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Leangella scissa 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Davidson 1871)