Leymeriella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LeymeriellidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 93.9 Mya.
58 occurrences of Leymeriella on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
58 occurrencesThese 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
13 formations
- Grès verts helvétiques Formation25
- Folkestone Formation · Lower Greensand Group5
- Conglomérats de Bargy Formation5
- Bazyab Formation4
- Bargy Conglomerate Formation2
- Carolinefjellet Formation2
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The named rock units Leymeriella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Leymeriella and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Leymeriella and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
278 taxa- Hypacanthoplites14 sites
- Douvilleiceras13 sites
- Hypacanthoplites milletianus8 sites
- Plicatula8 sites
- Bivalvia7 sites
- Desmoceras (Desmoceras) latidorsatum7 sites
- Holaster7 sites
- Discoides6 sites
- Hemiaster6 sites
- Hypacanthoplites elegans6 sites
- Hyposalenia6 sites
- Hysteroceras6 sites
- Lyelliceras6 sites
- Neoleymeriella consueta6 sites
- Puzosia6 sites
- Gastropoda5 sites
- Mortoniceras pricei5 sites
- Prohysteroceras5 sites
- Anadesmoceras4 sites
- Birostrina4 sites
- Conulus4 sites
- Cyclothyris4 sites
- Gastrochaenolites4 sites
- Grycia4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Leymeriella, 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
11 references- Les grès verts helvétiques (Aptien moyen-Albien supérieur) de Haute-Savoie, Valais et Vaud (Alpes occidentales franco-suisses)34
- The stratigraphical palaeontology of the Lower Greensand9
- Leymeriellidae (Cretaceous ammonites) from the lower Albian of Esfahan and Khur (Central Iran)4
- Cephalopoden aus unterkreidezeitlichen Geschieben der Region um Wolgast-Hohendorf, Vorpommern3
- Ammonite faunas and stratigraphy of Lower Cretaceous (Albian) rocks in southern Spitsbergen2
- Parahoplitid ammonites and narrowing down the Aptian/Albian boundary interval in northern Iran1
- A new ammonite fauna from NE Germany - evidence for an Early Albian cooling and the initial transgression in the Danish-Polish Trough1
- Un ostéoderme d'ankylosaure (Ornithischia) dans l'Albien de l'Aube (France) [An ankylosaur osteoderm (Ornithischia) in the Albian of Aube (France)]1
- Biofacies Characteristics of Lower Cretaceous Deposits of Georgia1
- Albian and Cenomanian ammonites from the island of Bornholm1
- Description de quelques gastéropdes albiens du Sud-Est de la France1
Each of the 58 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 Leymeriella
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Leymeriella 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 itLeymeriellidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.