Leperditia

Leperditia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LeperditiidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Leperditicopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Leperditicopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Leperditicopida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 200 million years on record.

The record covers at least 499.5 Mya to 298.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 504.5 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 433 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 214 of 433 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 190 of 433 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 26 of 433 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 433 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 433 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 433 occurrences510–501 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences501–492 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences475–466 Mya — about 55 occurrences466–457 Mya — about 67 occurrences457–448 Mya — about 77 occurrences448–439 Mya — about 25 occurrences439–431 Mya — about 39 occurrences431–422 Mya — about 101 occurrences422–413 Mya — about 50 occurrences413–404 Mya — about 1 occurrence404–396 Mya — about 6 occurrences396–387 Mya — about 6 occurrences387–378 Mya — about 3 occurrences378–369 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences369–361 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences361–352 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences352–343 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences343–334 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences334–326 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences326–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences299–291 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences291–282 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences282–273 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences273–264 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences264–256 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences256–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences499.5 Mya298.9 Mya510 Mya247 Mya

433 occurrences of Leperditia 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

433 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

97 formations

Crown Point — 44.61°N, 73.41°WCrown Point — 44.88°N, 73.44°WCrown Point — 44.94°N, 73.45°WCrown Point — 43.95°N, 73.44°WTonoloway Limstone — 39.63°N, 78.23°WTonoloway Limstone — 39.40°N, 78.84°WTonoloway Limstone — 39.57°N, 78.84°WTonoloway Limstone — 39.44°N, 78.97°WTonoloway Limstone — 38.27°N, 79.88°WWills Creek Limestone — 39.70°N, 78.18°WWills Creek Limestone — 39.63°N, 78.23°WWills Creek Limestone — 39.57°N, 78.84°WWills Creek Limestone — 39.44°N, 78.97°WValcour — 44.61°N, 73.41°WValcour — 44.30°N, 73.31°WValcour — 44.89°N, 73.44°WKanosh Shale — 38.78°N, 113.59°WKanosh Shale — 38.60°N, 113.75°WKanosh Shale — 38.85°N, 113.46°WKanosh Shale — 38.87°N, 113.42°WKanosh Shale — 38.88°N, 113.47°WKanosh Shale — 39.18°N, 113.48°WDay Point — 44.60°N, 73.44°WDay Point — 44.87°N, 73.48°WDay Point — 44.68°N, 73.45°WRead Bay — 75.00°N, 95.00°WRead Bay — 74.84°N, 93.51°WRead Bay — 74.68°N, 94.16°WRead Bay — 74.73°N, 94.94°WRead Bay — 74.70°N, 94.82°WTonoloway Limestone — 39.57°N, 78.84°WTonoloway Limestone — 39.57°N, 76.84°WTonoloway Limestone — 39.27°N, 78.54°WTonoloway Limestone — 39.63°N, 78.23°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 53.18°N, 99.27°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 53.25°N, 99.50°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 53.70°N, 101.20°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 51.75°N, 98.58°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 53.24°N, 99.52°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 53.25°N, 100.00°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 53.30°N, 100.27°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 51.60°N, 98.70°WCliffield — 37.09°N, 81.34°WCliffield — 37.15°N, 81.49°WCliffield — 37.08°N, 81.71°WCliffield — 37.13°N, 81.41°WSipai — 24.10°N, 109.98°ESipai — 24.07°N, 109.88°ECape Phillips — 75.80°N, 94.50°WBenbolt — 37.10°N, 81.34°WBenbolt — 37.22°N, 81.36°WBenbolt — 37.23°N, 81.10°WBenbolt — 37.00°N, 81.00°WBenbolt — 37.23°N, 81.32°WBenbolt — 37.08°N, 81.71°WLehman — 38.78°N, 113.59°WLehman — 38.60°N, 113.75°WLehman — 38.87°N, 113.42°WLehman — 38.88°N, 113.47°WLehman — 39.18°N, 113.48°WSyracuse — 43.05°N, 76.15°WSyracuse — 43.07°N, 76.08°WSyracuse — 43.05°N, 76.00°WSyracuse — 43.07°N, 76.33°WSyracuse — 43.05°N, 76.15°WEast Arm Dolomite — 53.18°N, 99.27°WEast Arm Dolomite — 53.70°N, 101.20°WEast Arm Dolomite — 53.92°N, 101.33°WEast Arm Dolomite — 53.80°N, 100.30°WBigby-Cannon Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WHemse Beds — 57.37°N, 18.69°EHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°EWills Creek — 38.95°N, 79.00°WWills Creek — 39.57°N, 78.84°WVunta — 67.93°N, 136.60°WBobcaygeon — 44.53°N, 78.55°WQueenston — 44.60°N, 80.58°WQueenston — 44.65°N, 80.67°WInwood — 53.17°N, 99.28°WAtikameg Dolomite — 53.22°N, 99.48°WAtikameg Dolomite — 58.77°N, 94.17°WAtikameg Dolomite — 53.18°N, 99.27°W

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The named rock units Leperditia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 73 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 86 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Leperditia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Leperditia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,486 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 391 sites for Leperditia, and this reads 240 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

68 references

Each of the 433 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. 56 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 Leperditia

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Leperditia 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. Rouault 1851