Leptodesma (Leptodesma) matheri
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Leptodesma (Leptodesma)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pterineidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pterineidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Pterineidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida
Time the record covers
At most 30 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 335.9 Mya and 306 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Leptodesma (Leptodesma) matheri on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
11 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
- Reynolds Limestone Formation · Mauch Chunk Group4
- Piauí Formation3
- Redoak Hollow Formation1
- Bluestone Formation1
- Hinton Formation1
- Maxville Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Leptodesma (Leptodesma) matheri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Leptodesma (Leptodesma) matheri and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Leptodesma (Leptodesma) matheri and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
220 taxa- Aviculopecten6 sites
- Edmondia6 sites
- Parallelodon5 sites
- Aviculopecten batesvillensis4 sites
- Schizodus depressus4 sites
- Sedgwickia4 sites
- Solenomorpha nitida4 sites
- Sphenotus monroensis4 sites
- Caneyella3 sites
- Cypricardella3 sites
- Etheripecten trichotomus3 sites
- Girtopinna peracuta3 sites
- Leptodesma (Leptodesma) potens3 sites
- Limipecten greerensis3 sites
- Myalina3 sites
- Nuculopsis3 sites
- Phestia pandoraeformis3 sites
- Pindorama nordestina3 sites
- Polidevcia stevensiana3 sites
- Prothyris (Prothyris) acuticarinata3 sites
- Sanguinolites unioniformis3 sites
- Schizodus chesterensis3 sites
- Septimyalina perattenuata3 sites
- Streblochondria3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Leptodesma (Leptodesma) matheri, 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- Bivalves (Mollusca) from the Mauch Chunk Group (Mississippian, Chesterian) of northern West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania4
- Pennsylvanian Pteriomorphian Bivalves from the Piauí Formation, Parnaíba Basin, Brazil2
- Mississippian (Chesterian) bivalves from the Pennsylvanian stratotype area in West Virginia and Virginia2
- Bivalve mollusks from the Maxville Limestone (Mississippian) in Ohio1
- Pennsylvannian pteriomorphian bivalves from the Piauí Formation, Parnaíba Basin, Brazil1
- Late Mississippian fauna from the Redoak Hollow Formation of southern Oklahoma. Part III. Pelecypoda1
Each of the 11 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 Leptodesma (Leptodesma) matheri 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 Leptodesma (Leptodesma) matheri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Leptodesma (Leptodesma) matheri was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itLeptodesma (Leptodesma) through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Elias 1957)