Carolinites tasmaniensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CarolinitesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Carolinites
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Carolinites
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Carolinites
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Telephinidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 473.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 488.9 Mya to 471.3 Mya.
5 occurrences of Carolinites tasmaniensis on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
5 occurrences- Cambrian2%
- Ordovician98%
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
2 formations
- Outram Formation2
- Caroline Creek Formation · Denison Group2
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The named rock units Carolinites tasmaniensis 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.
Carolinites tasmaniensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Carolinites tasmaniensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Aulacoparia (Aulacoparia) sculpta2 sites
- Acidiphorus1 site
- Acodus similaris1 site
- Asaphellus1 site
- Benthamaspis striata1 site
- Bergstroemognathus1 site
- Carolinites bulbosus1 site
- Cristodus1 site
- Cyrtolites1 site
- Diaphorodus delicatus1 site
- Drepanoistodus1 site
- Etheridgaspis1 site
- Fahraeusodus marathonensis1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Lingulida1 site
- Nautiloidea1 site
- Oepikodus1 site
- Oistodus1 site
- Orthis1 site
- Parapanderodus1 site
- Paraserratodontus costatus1 site
- Periodon1 site
- Prosopiscus1 site
- Protopanderodus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Carolinites tasmaniensis, 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
3 references- Trilobites from the Survey Peak, Outram and Skoki Formations (Upper Cambrian-Lower Ordovician) at Wilcox Pass, Jasper National Park, Alberta)2
- Australian Ordovician pelecypod molluscs2
- Lower Ordovician faunas, stratigraphy, and sea-level history of the Middle Beekmantown Group, Northeastern New York1
Each of the 5 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 Carolinites tasmaniensis 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 Carolinites tasmaniensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Carolinites tasmaniensis 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 itCarolinites through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Etheridge 1919)