Leptaena quadrilatera

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

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 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.5 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.6 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Ordovician — about 46 of 60 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 13 of 60 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 60 occurrencesDevonian451–449 Mya — about 3 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 8 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 10 occurrences445–443 Mya — about 26 occurrences443–441 Mya — about 8 occurrences441–439 Mya — about 2 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences435–433 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences433–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences420–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences418–416 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences416–414 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences406–404 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences404–402 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences402–400 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences445.5 Mya422.7 Mya451 Mya392 Mya

60 occurrences of Leptaena quadrilatera 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

60 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

Ellis Bay — 49.32°N, 61.86°WEllis Bay — 49.84°N, 64.45°WEllis Bay — 49.72°N, 63.34°WEllis Bay — 49.73°N, 63.57°WEllis Bay — 49.75°N, 63.58°WEllis Bay — 49.81°N, 64.35°WEllis Bay — 49.81°N, 64.01°WEllis Bay — 49.74°N, 63.89°WEllis Bay — 49.40°N, 62.38°WEllis Bay — 49.53°N, 62.66°WEllis Bay — 49.72°N, 63.83°WVaureal — 49.82°N, 64.35°WVaureal — 49.81°N, 64.43°WVaureal — 49.80°N, 63.63°WVaureal — 49.80°N, 63.89°WVaureal — 49.63°N, 63.20°WVaureal — 49.73°N, 63.83°WVaureal — 49.63°N, 63.78°WBecscie — 49.31°N, 61.84°WBecscie — 49.75°N, 63.64°WBecscie — 49.50°N, 63.36°WBecscie — 49.58°N, 62.56°WBecscie — 49.19°N, 61.72°WBecscie — 49.40°N, 62.36°WBecscie — 49.49°N, 62.65°WBecscie — 49.71°N, 63.38°WBecscie — 49.50°N, 62.53°WJupiter — 49.38°N, 62.15°W

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The named rock units Leptaena quadrilatera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Leptaena quadrilatera and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Leptaena quadrilatera and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

65 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 60 sites for Leptaena quadrilatera, 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

3 references

Each of the 60 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 content0

No picture of Leptaena quadrilatera was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access 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 Leptaena quadrilatera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Leptaena quadrilatera 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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What may have been alongside itLeptaena through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Shaler 1865