Levisella affinis
No picture of Levisella affinis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Levisella affinis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LevisellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 3.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 490.2 Mya and 486.85 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Levisella affinis 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
1 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.
Levisella affinis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Levisella affinis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Bienvillia corax1 site
- Calculites microps1 site
- Heterocaryon tuberculatum1 site
- Hungaia magnifica1 site
- Keithia1 site
- Keithiella cylindrica1 site
- Lauzonella broeggeri1 site
- Leiocoryphe occipitalis1 site
- Lotagnostus americanus1 site
- Onchonotus richardsoni1 site
- Peracheilus communis1 site
- Pseudagnostus gyps1 site
- Ptychopleurites dunbari1 site
- Raymondina respecta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Levisella affinis, 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 1 occurrence 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
Media content0
No picture of Levisella affinis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Levisella affinis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Levisella affinis 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 itLevisella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1865)