Constellaria islensis

Constellaria islensis

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ConstellariaPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Constellaria
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Constellaria
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Constellaria
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 11 of 11 occurrencesOrdovician471–471 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences471.8 Mya456.8 Mya

11 occurrences of Constellaria islensis 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

11 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

2 formations

Mingan — 50.20°N, 63.30°WMingan — 50.20°N, 63.35°WMingan — 50.22°N, 63.68°WMingan — 50.22°N, 64.20°WValcour — 44.86°N, 73.33°W

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The named rock units Constellaria islensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Constellaria islensis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Constellaria islensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

16 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Constellaria islensis, 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

2 references

Each of the 11 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Constellaria islensis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Constellaria islensis 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 itConstellaria through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ross 1963