Leptomitella confusa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LeptomitellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Leptomitella
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Leptomitella
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Leptomitella
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
Time the record covers
At least 1.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 516 Mya to 514.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 506.5 Mya.
6 occurrences of Leptomitella confusa on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
6 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Leptomitella confusa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Leptomitella confusa and its relatives
CambrianWhere Leptomitella confusa and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
173 taxa- Misszhouia longicaudata4 sites
- Naraoia spinosa4 sites
- Paraleptomitella dictyodroma4 sites
- Fuxianhuia protensa3 sites
- Heliomedusa orienta3 sites
- Isoxys auritus3 sites
- Isoxys paradoxus3 sites
- Kuamaia lata3 sites
- Leanchoilia illecebrosa3 sites
- Leptomitus teretiusculus3 sites
- Acanthomeridion serratum2 sites
- Branchiocaris yunnanensis2 sites
- Choiaella radiata2 sites
- Chuandianella ovata2 sites
- Eoredlichia intermediata2 sites
- Halichondrites2 sites
- Kunyangella2 sites
- Leptomitella conica2 sites
- Maotianshania cylindrica2 sites
- Microdictyon sinicum2 sites
- Paraleptomitella globula2 sites
- Retifacies abnormalis2 sites
- Rhombicalvaria acantha2 sites
- Saetaspongia densa2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Leptomitella confusa, 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
5 references- Lower Cambrian leptomitids (Demospongea), Chengjiang, Yunnan2
- A Cambrian soft-bodied biota after the first Phanerozoic mass extinction1
- Composition and tiering of the Cambrian sponge communities1
- Early Cambrian Chengjiang fauna in eastern Yunnan, CHina1
- Lower Cambrian pediculate lingulids from Yunnan, China1
Each of the 6 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 Leptomitella confusa 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 Leptomitella confusa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Leptomitella confusa 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 itLeptomitella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chen et al. 1989