Leptaena aequalis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LeptaenaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Leptaena
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Leptaena
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Leptaena
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 2.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 440.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 445.5 Mya to 438.6 Mya.

Ordovician — about 2 of 3 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 3 occurrencesSilurian446–445 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443.1 Mya440.5 Mya446 Mya438.1 Mya

3 occurrences of Leptaena aequalis on record. 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

3 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

1 formation

Leemon — 37.56°N, 89.62°WLeemon — 37.24°N, 89.46°W

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The named rock units Leptaena aequalis 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.

Found in the same rock

27 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Leptaena aequalis, 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

Each of the 3 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

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No picture of Leptaena aequalis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Leptaena aequalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Leptaena aequalis was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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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What may have been alongside itLeptaena through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Amsden 1974