Leptodesma spinigerum

Leptodesma spinigerum

Christian Franke · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LeptodesmaPBDB
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 least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 358.86 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 323.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 62 of 63 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 63 occurrencesCarboniferous389–387 Mya — about 6 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 14 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 14 occurrences383–380 Mya — about 6 occurrences380–378 Mya — about 6 occurrences378–376 Mya — about 6 occurrences376–374 Mya — about 6 occurrences374–371 Mya — about 4 occurrences360–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358–356 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences356–353 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences353–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–344 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences344–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–340 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences340–338 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences338–336 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences336–333 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–324 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences324–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences382.31 Mya358.86 Mya389 Mya322 Mya

63 occurrences of Leptodesma spinigerum on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

63 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

9 formations

Geneseo — 42.67°N, 75.59°WGeneseo — 42.61°N, 75.30°WGeneseo — 42.65°N, 75.44°WGeneseo — 42.48°N, 74.61°WGeneseo — 42.54°N, 75.21°WGeneseo — 42.62°N, 75.37°WGeneseo — 42.57°N, 76.21°WGeneseo — 42.65°N, 75.86°WGeneseo — 42.52°N, 75.01°WGeneseo — 42.51°N, 75.13°WGeneseo — 42.60°N, 75.54°WGeneseo — 42.64°N, 75.77°WGlen Aubrey — 42.30°N, 76.19°WGlen Aubrey — 42.38°N, 75.58°WGlen Aubrey — 42.31°N, 76.07°WGlen Aubrey — 42.16°N, 75.83°WGlen Aubrey — 42.42°N, 76.19°WGlen Aubrey — 42.26°N, 75.98°WGlen Aubrey — 42.18°N, 75.90°WGlen Aubrey — 42.57°N, 76.13°WGlen Aubrey — 42.49°N, 76.03°WGlen Aubrey — 42.44°N, 76.03°WGlen Aubrey — 42.49°N, 76.07°WGlen Aubrey — 42.37°N, 76.35°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 75.57°WMoscow — 42.62°N, 75.34°WMoscow — 42.52°N, 74.86°WMoscow — 42.57°N, 74.67°WMoscow — 42.47°N, 74.47°WTriangle — 42.35°N, 75.89°WTriangle — 42.42°N, 76.19°WTully — 42.52°N, 74.86°WTully — 42.53°N, 75.13°WWiscoy Sandstone — 42.07°N, 77.20°WBaird — 40.79°N, 122.30°WRhinestreet — 42.09°N, 76.87°WHanover — 42.28°N, 77.18°W

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

Leptodesma spinigerum and its relatives

Devonian

Where Leptodesma spinigerum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

225 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 63 sites for Leptodesma spinigerum, 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

7 references

Each of the 63 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 content1

Picture of Leptodesma spinigerum

Source
GBIF
Credit
Christian Franke
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1842)