Ellesmerella aranea

No picture of Ellesmerella aranea was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 aranea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EllesmerellaPBDB
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 most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 251.902 Mya and 241.464 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 0 of 15 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 14 of 15 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 15 occurrencesMiddle Triassic252–252 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 3 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 3 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 3 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 3 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences252.4 Mya241 Mya

15 occurrences of Ellesmerella aranea 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

15 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

8 formations

Blind Fiord — 80.91°N, 89.25°WBlind Fiord — 81.03°N, 87.00°WBlind Fiord — 81.20°N, 90.15°WKongressfjellet — 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 aranea 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.

Ellesmerella aranea and its relatives

Early Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

49 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Ellesmerella aranea, 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

10 references

Each of the 15 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 Ellesmerella aranea was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 aranea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Tozer 1961)