Leptomitidae

Tuponia Walcott, 1920, a relative of Leptomitidae — not Leptomitidae itself

Not Leptomitidae. This is Tuponia Walcott, 1920, a relative — both are Leptomitidae.

Yale Peabody Museum · 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
ProtomonaxonidaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Demospongiae
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Demospongiae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Demospongiae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera

Time the record covers

At least 267 million years on record.

The record covers at least 516 Mya to 248.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 247 Mya.

Cambrian — about 116 of 121 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 1 of 121 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 2 of 121 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 121 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 121 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 121 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 2 of 121 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 121 occurrences545–535 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences535–524 Mya — about 2 occurrences524–514 Mya — about 74 occurrences514–504 Mya — about 30 occurrences504–494 Mya — about 10 occurrences484–474 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences474–464 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences443–433 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences433–423 Mya — about 1 occurrence251–241 Mya — about 2 occurrences516 Mya248.6 Mya545 Mya241 Mya

121 occurrences of Leptomitidae 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

121 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

18 formations

Yu'anshan — 25.33°N, 103.50°EYu'anshan — 24.77°N, 102.58°EYu'anshan — 24.87°N, 102.83°EYuanshan — 24.81°N, 102.58°EYuanshan — 25.40°N, 103.38°EYuanshan — 24.84°N, 102.41°EYuanshan — 25.72°N, 103.99°EYuanshan — 24.00°N, 102.00°EBurgess Shale — 51.44°N, 116.47°WBurgess Shale — 51.38°N, 116.43°WBurgess Shale — 51.05°N, 115.85°WQiongzhusi — 24.65°N, 102.97°EBalang — 26.39°N, 107.69°EBalang — 28.42°N, 109.42°EMarjum — 39.22°N, 113.33°WMarjum — 39.00°N, 113.00°WMarjum — 39.27°N, 113.31°WNiutitang — 27.67°N, 106.68°EShuijingtuo — 30.50°N, 111.16°EParker Slate — 44.48°N, 73.21°WParker Slate — 44.74°N, 73.16°WKinzers — 40.04°N, 76.31°WKinzers — 40.09°N, 76.35°WMurero — 41.17°N, 1.48°WHuangboling — 30.08°N, 117.00°EMarjum Limestone — 39.22°N, 113.40°WDuchesnay — 50.63°N, 115.60°WStephen — 51.17°N, 116.08°WMarsden Sandstone — 35.58°S, 137.50°EParker — 44.73°N, 73.15°WLandeyran — 43.57°N, 3.37°E

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The named rock units Leptomitidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Leptomitidae and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Leptomitidae and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

769 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Leptomitidae, 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

37 references

Each of the 121 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. 25 further references are not listed. 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 Tuponia Walcott, 1920

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itProtomonaxonida through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. De Laubenfels 1955