Leioshumardia
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ShumardiidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Shumardiidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 477.1 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Leioshumardia 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
5 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
- Table Cove Formation · Table Head Group3
- Karadere Formation2
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The named rock units Leioshumardia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Leioshumardia and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Leioshumardia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
55 taxa- Blosyropsis billingsi3 sites
- Galbagnostus galba3 sites
- Harpides atlanticus3 sites
- Lonchodomas clavulus3 sites
- Lonchodomas normalis3 sites
- Nileus affinis3 sites
- Raymondaspis reticulatus3 sites
- Telephina (Telephina) americana3 sites
- <cybelinid>2 sites
- Ampyxoides semicostatus2 sites
- Celmus2 sites
- Ceraurinella polydorus2 sites
- Cybelurus mirus2 sites
- Didymograptellus nitidus2 sites
- Didymograptus uniformis2 sites
- Eoglyptograptus2 sites
- Geragnostus (Novoagnostus) longicollis2 sites
- Geragnostus fabius2 sites
- Goniophrys2 sites
- Illaenus2 sites
- Illaenus consimilis2 sites
- Illaenus gelasinus2 sites
- Ischyrophyma tumida2 sites
- Nileus macrops2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Leioshumardia, 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
2 references- Trilobites of the Ordovician Table Head Formation, western Newfoundland3
- Lower Palaeozoic stratigraphy and palaeontology, Karadere–Zirze area, Pontus Mountains, northern Turkey2
Each of the 5 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 Leioshumardia 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 Leioshumardia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Leioshumardia 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 itShumardiidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Whittington 1965