Ellesmerella

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PosidoniidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Ostreida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ostreida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Posidoniidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 46 million years on record.

The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 247 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 241.464 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 19 occurrencesPermian — about 4 of 19 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 14 of 19 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 19 occurrencesMiddle Triassic300–298 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences298–296 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences296–294 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences294–292 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences288–286 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences286–284 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences282–280 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences280–278 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences278–276 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences252–250 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences250–248 Mya — about 4 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 9 occurrences246–244 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences244–242 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences242–240 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences293.52 Mya247 Mya300 Mya240 Mya

19 occurrences of Ellesmerella on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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

19 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

9 formations

Blind Fiord — 80.91°N, 89.25°WBlind Fiord — 81.03°N, 87.00°WBlind Fiord — 81.20°N, 90.15°WOrn — 71.50°N, 28.38°EKongressfjellet — 78.53°N, 21.96°EVikinghøgda — 78.00°N, 23.00°EToad — 59.35°N, 124.86°WBlaa Mountain — 81.00°N, 90.58°WVikinghøgda — 78.22°N, 17.51°EVikinghogda — 78.29°N, 16.56°ETvillingodden — 78.10°N, 13.87°E

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The named rock units Ellesmerella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ellesmerella and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Ellesmerella and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

63 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Ellesmerella, 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

12 references

Each of the 19 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 Ellesmerella 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 Ellesmerella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ellesmerella 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 itPosidoniidae through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waterhouse 2008