Elsonella

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ConodontophoridaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conodontophorida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Conodontophorida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conodontophorida

Time the record covers

At least 46 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 335.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 323.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 9 of 14 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 5 of 14 occurrencesCarboniferous389–387 Mya — about 2 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 4 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 4 occurrences383–380 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences336–333 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences329–327 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences327–324 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences324–322 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences382.31 Mya335.4 Mya389 Mya322 Mya

14 occurrences of Elsonella on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

1 formation

Kinkaid — 37.87°N, 89.57°WKinkaid — 37.51°N, 89.03°W

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The named rock units Elsonella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Elsonella and its relatives

Devonian

Where Elsonella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

11 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Elsonella, 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

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

Media and terms

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

No 3D scan of Elsonella 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 itConodontophorida through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.