Leptella grandis
No picture of Leptella grandis 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 Leptella grandis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LeptellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 7.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 477.1 Mya and 469.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Leptella grandis 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
12 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Leptella grandis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Leptella grandis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Leptella grandis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Nereidella10 sites
- Sinorthis10 sites
- Yangtzeella (Yangtzeella) poloi10 sites
- Paralenorthis serica8 sites
- Punctolira8 sites
- Euorthisina6 sites
- Pseudomimella5 sites
- Schedophyla striata5 sites
- Nothorthis perplexa4 sites
- Tritoechia4 sites
- Nocturnellia3 sites
- Protoskenidioides3 sites
- Baltoniodus2 sites
- Conodiscus2 sites
- Drepanoistodus forceps2 sites
- Euorthisina orthiformis2 sites
- Leontiella2 sites
- Microzarkodina2 sites
- Palaeoglossa2 sites
- Periodon2 sites
- Pseudoporambonites yichangensis2 sites
- Rhombampyx yii2 sites
- Scolopodus2 sites
- Yangtzeella2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Leptella grandis, 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- Brachiopod diversification during the Early–Mid Ordovician: an example from the Dawan Formation, Yichang area, central China10
- The global stratotype section and point for the base of the Middle Ordovician Series and the Third Stage (Dapingian)2
Each of the 12 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 Leptella grandis 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 Leptella grandis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Leptella grandis 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 itLeptella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Xu et al. 1974