Leptaena ventricosa
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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 4.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 457.2 Mya to 452.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 451.3 Mya.
18 occurrences of Leptaena ventricosa 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
18 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
6 formations
- Cwm Rhiwarth Formation4
- Allt Ddu Formation · Lower Bala Group3
- Whittery Shales Formation3
- Hagley Shales Formation2
- Gelli-Grin Formation1
- Kirkcolm Formation1
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The named rock units Leptaena ventricosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Leptaena ventricosa and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Leptaena ventricosa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
138 taxa- Reuschella horderleyensis10 sites
- Bicuspina9 sites
- Colaptomena expansa prolata9 sites
- Broeggerolithus broeggeri6 sites
- Dinorthis berwynensis6 sites
- Howellites6 sites
- Onniella ostentata6 sites
- Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) sericea6 sites
- Broeggerolithus5 sites
- Brongniartella5 sites
- Brongniartella minor5 sites
- Kiaeromena (Kiaeromena) kjerulfi5 sites
- Skenidioides costatus5 sites
- Crinoidea4 sites
- Cyrtolites4 sites
- Lingulella ovata4 sites
- Nicolella actoniae4 sites
- Orthoceras4 sites
- Platystrophia caelata4 sites
- Strophomena4 sites
- Tallinnella4 sites
- Bicuspina subquadrata3 sites
- Broeggerolithus nicholsoni3 sites
- Bryozoa3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Leptaena ventricosa, 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
6 references- Ordovician Brachiopoda from the Shelve District, Shropshire5
- The Caradocian brachiopod faunas of the Bala District, Merionethshire5
- Caradoc marine benthic communities of the South Berwyn Hills, North Wales4
- The Stratigraphy of the Bala District, Merionethshire2
- Caradoc Strophomenoid and Plectambonitoid Brachiopods from Wales and the Welsh Borderland1
- Late Ordovician (Katian) brachiopods from the Southern Uplands of Scotland: biogeographic patterns on the edge of Laurentia1
Each of the 18 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
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No picture of Leptaena ventricosa was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 ventricosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Leptaena ventricosa 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. Williams 1963