Leptaena ziegleri
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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 most 5.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 438.6 Mya and 432.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Leptaena ziegleri on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
2 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
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The named rock units Leptaena ziegleri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Leptaena ziegleri and its relatives
SilurianWhere Leptaena ziegleri and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- ? Protathyridae <indet.>1 site
- Acodus1 site
- Apsidognathus1 site
- Atrypa reticularis1 site
- Brachyprion1 site
- Caenotreta aldridgei1 site
- Carniodus carnulus1 site
- Coolinia applanata1 site
- Costistricklandia1 site
- Cyphomenoidea wisgoriensis1 site
- Dalejina1 site
- Distomodus1 site
- Distomodus staurognathoides1 site
- Dolerorthis psygma1 site
- Enteletacea1 site
- Eocoelia curtisi1 site
- Eospirifer radiatus1 site
- Hindella1 site
- Howellella anglica1 site
- Idioprioniodus1 site
- Leptostrophia1 site
- Lonchodina1 site
- Megastrophia1 site
- Monograptus priodon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Leptaena ziegleri, 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- An upper Llandovery limestone overlying Hollybush sandstone (Cambrian) in Hollybush quarry, Malvern hills1
- Some strophomenacean brachiopods from the British Lower Silurian1
Each of the 2 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 ziegleri 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 ziegleri, 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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What may have been alongside itLeptaena through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cocks 1968