Limoptera

Limoptera

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PterineidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pterineidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pterineidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Pterineidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 385.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 422.7 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 40 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 39 of 40 occurrencesDevonian424–422 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences408–407 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences407–405 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences405–404 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences404–403 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 1 occurrence397–396 Mya — about 1 occurrence396–394 Mya — about 1 occurrence394–393 Mya — about 2 occurrences393–391 Mya — about 2 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 2 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 2 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 4 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 5 occurrences386–384 Mya — about 6 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 6 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 2 occurrences419.62 Mya385.9 Mya423.5 Mya381.5 Mya

40 occurrences of Limoptera on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

40 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

Silica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WWeatherall — 73.50°N, 112.00°WErtang — 23.60°N, 109.65°EErtang — 24.10°N, 109.98°EYingtang — 24.07°N, 109.88°ETaemas — 35.00°S, 149.00°EMoscow — 42.75°N, 75.91°WMoscow — 42.69°N, 75.24°WSkaneateles — 42.89°N, 75.58°WLudlowville — 42.82°N, 75.53°WLudlowville — 42.76°N, 76.47°WDonggangling — 24.98°N, 109.98°ESpeeds — 38.50°N, 85.75°WSaxler — 50.00°N, 7.00°EGladbach — 50.00°N, 7.00°EKanouse — 41.35°N, 74.11°WGaspe — 48.87°N, 64.21°W

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The named rock units Limoptera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Limoptera and its relatives

Devonian

Where Limoptera and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

357 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Limoptera, 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

13 references

Each of the 40 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 Limoptera

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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Limoptera 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 itPterineidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1869