Lethamia rara
No picture of Lethamia rara 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 Lethamia rara, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LethamiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Productidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Productidina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Productidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 6.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 290.1 Mya and 283.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Lethamia rara on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
2 occurrences- Permian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Lethamia rara has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lethamia rara and its relatives
PermianWhere Lethamia rara and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Terrakea pollex2 sites
- Ambikella elongata1 site
- Anidanthus cessnockensis1 site
- Anidanthus springsurensis1 site
- Collabrina parva1 site
- Costatumulus farleyensis1 site
- Deltopecten limaeformis1 site
- Echinalosia preovalis1 site
- Eurydesma cordatum1 site
- Lipanteris1 site
- Lipanteris cracowensis1 site
- Lipanteris sparsispinosus1 site
- Magniplicatina undulata1 site
- Paraplatyschisma etheridgei1 site
- Paraplatyschisma rotunda1 site
- Permasyrinx procera1 site
- Pleurocinctosa promenata1 site
- Spiraculinella radiata1 site
- Squamuliferipecten1 site
- Tabellina cracowensis1 site
- Tabellina denmeadi1 site
- Taeniothaerus lakismatos1 site
- Trigonotreta cracovensis1 site
- Uraloceras cancellatum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Lethamia rara, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Lethamia rara 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 Lethamia rara, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lethamia rara 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLethamia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Briggs 1998