Elegantilites

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HyolithidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hyolithida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hyolithida
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Hyolithida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hyolitha
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hyolitha

Time the record covers

At least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 432.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 13 of 14 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 14 occurrencesSilurian478–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences475–473 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 1 occurrence466–464 Mya — about 1 occurrence464–463 Mya — about 1 occurrence463–461 Mya — about 1 occurrence461–460 Mya — about 3 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences443–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471.3 Mya443.1 Mya478 Mya432 Mya

14 occurrences of Elegantilites 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

14 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

11 formations

Tachilla — 32.00°N, 4.00°WTachilla — 31.45°N, 4.17°WUpper Ktaoua — 31.08°N, 5.25°WUpper Ktaoua — 30.00°N, 5.50°WBrassfield — 38.79°N, 83.55°WPizarras Guindo — 38.70°N, 3.77°WLower Ktaoua — 31.00°N, 5.00°WSueve Shale — 43.00°N, 5.00°WUpper Fezouata — 31.38°N, 4.17°WSarka — 50.00°N, 14.00°EBou Zeroual — 30.14°N, 6.36°WTaddrist — 30.64°N, 5.11°WVillar del Salz — 40.93°N, 2.05°W

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Elegantilites 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.

Elegantilites and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Elegantilites and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

273 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Elegantilites, 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

11 references

Each of the 14 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Elegantilites 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.

Keep going

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marek 1966