Estlandia marginata

Estlandia marginata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EstlandiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Billingsellida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Billingsellida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Billingsellida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 1.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 459.7 Mya to 458 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 461.4 Mya to 452.8 Mya.

Ordovician — about 11 of 11 occurrencesOrdovician462–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 2 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences459.7 Mya458 Mya461.9 Mya452.3 Mya

11 occurrences of Estlandia marginata 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

11 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

4 formations

Viivikonna — 59.39°N, 27.23°EViivikonna — 59.38°N, 27.29°EVäo — 59.42°N, 24.75°EKahula — 59.39°N, 27.23°EKörgekallas — 59.38°N, 27.03°E

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The named rock units Estlandia marginata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Estlandia marginata and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Estlandia marginata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

40 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Estlandia marginata, 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

5 references

Each of the 11 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 content1

Picture of Estlandia marginata

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Estlandia marginata 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 itEstlandia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pahlen 1877)