Lepeta concentrica

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- ringed blind limpetPBDB
- Sits inside
- LepetaPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Lepetidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lepetidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Lepetidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Lepeta concentrica on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
4 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Lepeta concentrica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lepeta concentrica and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Lepeta concentrica and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Balanus nubilus1 site
- Foraminifera1 site
- Leukoma staminea1 site
- Lottia persona1 site
- Macoma (Macoma) inquinata1 site
- Macoma nasuta1 site
- Margarites1 site
- Mytilus californianus1 site
- Odostomia1 site
- Saxidomus giganteus1 site
- Thais lamellosa1 site
- Tresus capax1 site
- Zirfaea pilsbryi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Lepeta concentrica, 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
3 references- Late Pleistocene marine paleoecology and zoogeography on Central California2
- Interpretation of the invertebrate fauna from the Upper Pleistocene Battery Formation near Crescent City, California1
- The marine Tertiary stratigraphy of the North Pacific coast of America1
Each of the 4 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 content1

Picture of Lepeta concentrica
- 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 Lepeta concentrica 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 itLepeta through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Middendorff 1848)