Leperditia bivia

No picture of Leperditia bivia was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Leperditia bivia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LeperditiaPBDB
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 most 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 7 of 7 occurrencesOrdovician471–471 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471.8 Mya456.8 Mya

7 occurrences of Leperditia bivia 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

7 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

4 formations

Kanosh shale — 38.88°N, 113.47°WKanosh shale — 39.18°N, 113.48°WLehman — 38.60°N, 113.75°WLehman — 39.18°N, 113.48°WWatson Ranch Quartzite — 38.60°N, 113.75°WBadger Flat — 36.88°N, 118.07°W

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The named rock units Leperditia bivia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Leperditia bivia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Leperditia bivia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

19 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Leperditia bivia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Leperditia bivia was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia 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 Leperditia bivia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. White 1874