Leperditella

Leperditella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LeperditellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 488.9 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 169 occurrencesOrdovician — about 169 of 169 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 169 occurrences490–488 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences487–485 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences485–483 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences474–472 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 9 occurrences471–469 Mya — about 12 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 7 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 7 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 7 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 7 occurrences463–461 Mya — about 7 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 9 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 11 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 12 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 14 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 14 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 15 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 17 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 12 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 2 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 2 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477.1 Mya449.5 Mya489.8 Mya442.2 Mya

169 occurrences of Leperditella 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

169 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

51 formations

Antelope Valley — 39.09°N, 116.85°WAntelope Valley — 36.88°N, 116.65°WAntelope Valley — 38.53°N, 116.40°WAntelope Valley — 37.34°N, 115.38°WAntelope Valley — 37.30°N, 115.80°WAntelope Valley — 39.00°N, 116.62°WAntelope Valley — 39.60°N, 116.26°WAntelope Valley — 38.28°N, 116.42°WSunblood — 62.00°N, 126.00°WSunblood — 62.00°N, 127.00°WSunblood — 61.32°N, 125.55°WSunblood — 62.12°N, 126.68°WSunblood — 62.52°N, 124.78°WSunblood — 61.72°N, 125.93°WSunblood — 62.18°N, 126.70°WBromide — 34.00°N, 97.00°WEsbataottine — 62.00°N, 127.00°WEsbataottine — 61.72°N, 125.93°WEsbataottine — 61.63°N, 125.73°WWitten Limestone — 37.11°N, 81.52°WWitten Limestone — 37.00°N, 81.00°WWitten Limestone — 37.02°N, 81.63°WWitten Limestone — 37.03°N, 81.79°WWitten Limestone — 37.10°N, 81.62°WIon — 42.00°N, 94.00°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 94.00°WEggleston — 37.00°N, 81.00°WEggleston — 37.10°N, 81.34°WEggleston — 37.13°N, 81.49°WEggleston — 37.03°N, 81.79°WEggleston — 37.13°N, 81.41°WCliffield — 37.09°N, 81.34°WCliffield — 37.15°N, 81.49°WCliffield — 37.08°N, 81.71°WCliffield — 37.13°N, 81.41°WGratton Limestone — 37.22°N, 81.36°WGratton Limestone — 37.00°N, 81.00°WGratton Limestone — 37.10°N, 81.62°WUst'Stolbovaya — 62.14°N, 91.56°EUst'Stolbovaya — 62.14°N, 91.49°EDecorah Shale — 46.00°N, 94.00°WCummingsville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WSpechts Ferry — 42.00°N, 94.00°WGuttenberg — 42.00°N, 94.00°WWhittaker — 62.00°N, 127.00°WWhittaker — 62.53°N, 124.85°WFengxiang — 33.00°N, 111.00°EScales Shale — 42.00°N, 94.00°WFort Atkinson Limestone — 42.00°N, 94.00°WBrainard Shale — 42.00°N, 94.00°WAmarkan — 68.00°N, 88.00°EDolbor — 63.00°N, 95.00°EDolbor — 62.14°N, 91.56°ELexington Limestone — 38.00°N, 84.67°WKanosh Fm. — 39.48°N, 114.92°W

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The named rock units Leperditella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Leperditella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Leperditella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

863 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 138 sites for Leperditella, 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

25 references

Each of the 169 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. 13 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 Leperditella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Leperditella was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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.