Elvinia
No picture of Elvinia was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikidata 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 Elvinia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ElviniidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Elviniidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 493.5 Mya to 490.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 486.85 Mya.
117 occurrences of Elvinia on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
117 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
21 formations
- Wilberns Formation45
- Gatesburg Formation17
- Davis Formation11
- Windfall Formation6
- Collier Shale Formation5
- Reagan Sandstone Formation5
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The named rock units Elvinia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Elvinia and its relatives
CambrianWhere Elvinia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
172 taxa- Camaraspis convexus31 sites
- Cliffia lataegenae30 sites
- Pterocephalia sanctisabae24 sites
- Irvingella major21 sites
- Dellea20 sites
- Kindbladia wichitaensis20 sites
- Burnetiella urania13 sites
- Deckera completa13 sites
- Housia vacuna13 sites
- Dokimocephalus intermedius12 sites
- Deadwoodia duris11 sites
- Dellea wilbernsensis10 sites
- Irvingella10 sites
- Dellea suada9 sites
- Drabia9 sites
- Housia ovata9 sites
- Burnetiella8 sites
- Drabia acroccipita8 sites
- Pterocephalia8 sites
- Sigmocheilus flabellifer8 sites
- Buttsia drabensis7 sites
- Cliffia7 sites
- Plataspella anatina7 sites
- Xenocheilos spineum7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 116 sites for Elvinia, 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
24 references- The trilobite fauna of the Elvina zone in the Basal Wilberns limestone of Texas45
- Trilobites of the Late Cambrian Pterocephaliid Biomere in the Great Basin, United States14
- High-Resolution Biostratigraphy in the Upper Cambrian ore hill Member of Gatesburg Formation, South-Central Pennsylvnia12
- Franconian (Upper Cambrian) trilobite faunas from the Elvins Group of Southeast Missouri9
- New trilobite taxa from Upper Cambrian microbial reefs in the central Appalachians5
- Late Cambrian and earliest Ordovician trilobites Wichita Mountains area, Oklahoma5
- Redeposited Elvinia Zone (Upper Cambrian) trilobites from the Collier Shale, Ouachita Mountains, west-central Arkansas3
- New Elvinia zone (Upper Cambrian) trilobites from new localities in the Collier Shale, Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas2
- Trilobites of the Marjuman and Steptoean stages (Upper Cambrian), Rabbitkettle Formation, southern Mackenzie Mountains, northwest Canada2
- Trilobites of the Upper Cambrian Sunwaptan Stage, southern Canadian Rocky Mountains, Alberta2
- Upper Cambrian Orr Formation: Its Subdivisions and Correlatives in Western Utah2
- Stratigraphy of Upper Cambrian-Lower Ordovician Subsurface Sequence in Williston Basin2
Each of the 117 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. 12 further references are not listed. 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 Elvinia was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikidata 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 Elvinia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Elvinia 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 itElviniidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1924