Pseudoleptodus

No picture of Pseudoleptodus 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 Pseudoleptodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PoikilosakinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lyttoniidina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Lyttoniidina
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lyttoniidina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lyttoniidina

Time the record covers

At least 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 68 occurrencesPermian — about 68 of 68 occurrencesPermian300–298 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 2 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 2 occurrences296–294 Mya — about 2 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 1 occurrence283–282 Mya — about 2 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 2 occurrences281–279 Mya — about 2 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 2 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 2 occurrences277–275 Mya — about 2 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 2 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 3 occurrences273–271 Mya — about 3 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 3 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 3 occurrences269–267 Mya — about 3 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 8 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 10 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 4 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 3 occurrences262–260 Mya — about 3 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 1 occurrence293.52 Mya264.28 Mya299.7 Mya259.1 Mya

68 occurrences of Pseudoleptodus 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

68 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

12 formations

Bell Canyon — 31.80°N, 104.78°WBell Canyon — 31.92°N, 104.76°WBell Canyon — 31.26°N, 104.51°WWord — 30.39°N, 103.18°WWord — 30.23°N, 103.44°WWord — 30.41°N, 103.11°WCathedral Mountain — 30.41°N, 103.11°WCathedral Mountain — 30.25°N, 103.37°WCathedral Mountain — 30.31°N, 103.29°WNeal Ranch — 30.36°N, 103.13°WNeal Ranch — 30.35°N, 103.15°WRat Buri — 7.38°N, 99.30°ECherry Canyon — 31.87°N, 104.87°WCherry Canyon — 31.86°N, 104.82°WBone Spring — 31.35°N, 104.86°WBone Spring — 31.51°N, 104.93°WBone Spring — 31.49°N, 104.96°WGua Musang — 4.56°N, 101.99°EGua Musang — 4.55°N, 101.98°ERoad Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.14°WRoad Canyon — 30.36°N, 103.27°WCapitan — 31.99°N, 104.76°WVidrio — 30.24°N, 103.44°WSkinner Ranch — 30.26°N, 103.35°W

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The named rock units Pseudoleptodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pseudoleptodus and its relatives

Permian

Where Pseudoleptodus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

1,031 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 61 sites for Pseudoleptodus, 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

6 references

Each of the 68 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

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No picture of Pseudoleptodus 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 Pseudoleptodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pseudoleptodus 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 itPoikilosakinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stehli 1956