Levenea canaliculata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LeveneaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Dalmanellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Dalmanellidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Dalmanellidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 9.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 431.2 Mya to 421.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 433.5 Mya to 419.62 Mya.
36 occurrences of Levenea canaliculata on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
36 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
23 formations
- Hemse Beds Formation5
- Eke Beds Formation3
- Jaani Formation2
- Kaugatuma Formation2
- Burgsvik Beds Formation1
- Hamra Beds Formation1
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The named rock units Levenea canaliculata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Levenea canaliculata and its relatives
SilurianWhere Levenea canaliculata and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
420 taxa- Atrypa reticularis18 sites
- Delthyris (Delthyris) elevata15 sites
- Microsphaeridiorhynchus nucula13 sites
- Calymene12 sites
- Dayia navicula11 sites
- Crinoidea10 sites
- Homoeospira baylei10 sites
- Delthyris9 sites
- Craniops8 sites
- Ptychopleurella bouchardi8 sites
- Syringopora8 sites
- Anthozoa7 sites
- Atrypa7 sites
- Dalejina hybrida7 sites
- Heliolites7 sites
- Leptaena7 sites
- Leptaena rhomboidalis7 sites
- Trilobita7 sites
- Algae6 sites
- Cephalopoda6 sites
- Dolerorthis rustica6 sites
- Encrinurus punctatus6 sites
- Eospirifer6 sites
- Favosites gothlandicus6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Levenea canaliculata, 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
12 references- Silurian brachiopods Dictyonellida, Strophomenida, Productida, Orthotetida, Protorthida and Orthida from Estonia7
- Communities and Biozones in the Baltic Silurian6
- Silurian Reefs of Gotland6
- A review of Silurian brachiopods from Gotland5
- Silurian and Lower Devonian brachiopod and bryozoan communities of southwestern Byelorussia4
- Animal and plant communities of Podolia2
- Earliest encrusting calcareous Foraminifera from the Sheinwoodian (lower Silurian) of Saaremaa Island, Estonia1
- High-energy sedimentary events in lagoonal successions of the Upper Silurian of Podolia, Ukraine1
- Some Wenlockian-Geddinian, chiefly brachiopod dominated communities of North America1
- Polish Ludlow-Lower Devonian communities1
- Silurian brachiopods in a stromatoporoid bioherm1
- The Silurian rocks of the Tortworth Inlier, Gloucestershire1
Each of the 36 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 Levenea canaliculata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Levenea canaliculata 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 itLevenea through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lindström 1861)