Leptozyga

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrthonemidaePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 119 million years on record.

The record covers at least 383.4 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 385.9 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 19 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 16 of 19 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 19 occurrencesPermian388–384 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences384–380 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences349–345 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences345–340 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences340–336 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences336–332 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences332–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–310 Mya — about 4 occurrences310–305 Mya — about 6 occurrences305–301 Mya — about 4 occurrences301–297 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences284–279 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences279–275 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences275–270 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences266–262 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences262–257 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences383.4 Mya264.28 Mya388 Mya257 Mya

19 occurrences of Leptozyga 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

19 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

14 formations

Lost Branch — 38.25°N, 94.69°WLost Branch — 35.94°N, 96.00°WLost Branch — 35.12°N, 96.43°WGlenshaw — 40.00°N, 81.72°WGlenshaw — 39.50°N, 82.08°WGlenshaw — 39.31°N, 79.86°WAllegheny — 40.69°N, 81.24°WAllegheny — 40.67°N, 81.49°WFort Scott Limestone — 40.82°N, 89.78°WPawnee — 35.02°N, 96.38°WAltamont — 36.12°N, 95.85°WShale Hill — 34.96°N, 96.52°WKersadiou — 48.32°N, 4.24°WSisophon — 13.60°N, 102.96°EMerlewood — 30.98°S, 150.51°EH. S. Lee — 4.30°N, 101.15°EAppanoose — 38.70°N, 90.39°WHolder — 33.40°N, 105.87°WWashingtonville — 40.60°N, 81.31°W

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

Leptozyga and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Leptozyga and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

375 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Leptozyga, 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

8 references

Each of the 19 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 Leptozyga 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 Leptozyga, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Leptozyga 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 itOrthonemidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Knight 1930)