Elasmothyris

No picture of Elasmothyris was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Elasmothyris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LinoporellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 7.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 457.3 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 5 of 5 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 5 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences457.3 Mya449.5 Mya471.9 Mya442.5 Mya

5 occurrences of Elasmothyris 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

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

Kangaroo Creek — 41.37°N, 122.69°WPratt Ferry — 33.02°N, 87.08°W

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The named rock units Elasmothyris 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.

Elasmothyris and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Elasmothyris and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

91 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Elasmothyris, 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

2 references

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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Elasmothyris was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Elasmothyris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itLinoporellidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.