Leptochondria separata

No picture of Leptochondria separata 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 Leptochondria separata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LeptochondriaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Pectinida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 2.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 244.4 Mya to 241.464 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 245.19 Mya to 237 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 2 of 2 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 0 of 2 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences244.4 Mya241.464 Mya245.7 Mya236.5 Mya

2 occurrences of Leptochondria separata on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

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

2 formations

Wetterstein — 48.50°N, 17.33°ECaerace — 45.05°N, 29.06°E

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The named rock units Leptochondria separata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Leptochondria separata and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Leptochondria separata and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

147 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Leptochondria separata, 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 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

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No picture of Leptochondria separata 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 Leptochondria separata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Leptochondria separata 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 itLeptochondria through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Reis 1926)