Lecanospira

Lecanospira

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OphiletidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 483.4 Mya to 454 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 488.9 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 57 occurrencesOrdovician — about 57 of 57 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 57 occurrences490–488 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences487–485 Mya — about 5 occurrences485–483 Mya — about 6 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 7 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 4 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 4 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 4 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 4 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 4 occurrences474–472 Mya — about 4 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 4 occurrences471–469 Mya — about 3 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 1 occurrence468–466 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences463–461 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences483.4 Mya454 Mya489.8 Mya442.2 Mya

57 occurrences of Lecanospira 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

57 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

21 formations

Boat Harbour — 48.50°N, 58.92°WBoat Harbour — 51.39°N, 56.45°WBoat Harbour — 48.54°N, 58.74°WBoat Harbour — 50.92°N, 57.18°WBoat Harbour — 50.88°N, 56.98°WBoat Harbour — 50.66°N, 57.22°WBoat Harbour — 50.77°N, 57.14°WDeadwood — 47.42°N, 105.59°WDeadwood — 46.87°N, 103.30°WDeadwood — 47.98°N, 102.92°WDeadwood — 47.15°N, 110.22°WHoneycut — 30.27°N, 97.74°WHoneycut — 31.02°N, 98.53°WHoneycut — 31.08°N, 98.57°WHoneycut — 31.10°N, 98.48°WHoneycut — 30.27°N, 98.35°WNittany Dolomite — 40.73°N, 77.78°WNittany Dolomite — 40.47°N, 78.20°WNittany Dolomite — 40.80°N, 77.85°WNewala — 34.54°N, 85.35°WGorman — 30.27°N, 97.74°WGorman — 30.62°N, 99.23°WGorman — 30.28°N, 99.42°WRoubidoux — 36.98°N, 91.50°WRoubidoux — 37.02°N, 91.32°WRoubidoux — 36.78°N, 92.42°WFort Ann — 43.91°N, 73.42°WFort Ann — 43.91°N, 73.30°WFlorentine Valley Limestone — 42.00°S, 146.00°EFlorentine Valley Limestone — 42.72°S, 146.48°EBeauharnois — 45.29°N, 74.13°WBeauharnois — 45.25°N, 74.18°WKanosh Shale — 38.78°N, 113.59°WRockdale Run — 39.63°N, 77.82°WHuangnigang — 30.00°N, 120.00°ESan Lorenzo — 21.00°S, 65.00°WSella — 21.38°S, 64.72°WSkoki — 50.87°N, 115.51°WShakopee — 44.50°N, 92.90°WKanosh — 38.88°N, 113.47°WWahwah — 38.86°N, 113.46°WWatts Bight — 48.53°N, 58.75°WBalnakeil — 58.58°N, 4.77°W

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The named rock units Lecanospira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lecanospira and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Lecanospira and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

289 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 52 sites for Lecanospira, 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

34 references

Each of the 57 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. 22 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 Lecanospira

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
RussKohrs
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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. Butts 1926