Ferrobolus
No picture of Ferrobolus 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 Ferrobolus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DysoristidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Linguloidea
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Linguloidea
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Linguloidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Lingulata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 450 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 486.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 477.1 Mya.
3 occurrences of Ferrobolus 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
3 occurrences- Cambrian33%
- Ordovician67%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Ferrobolus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ferrobolus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ferrobolus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
55 taxa- Apheoorthina2 sites
- Broeggeria2 sites
- Eosiphonotreta2 sites
- Hemibarrandia holoubkovensis2 sites
- Holoubkovia klouceki2 sites
- Holubaspis perneri2 sites
- Kolihium2 sites
- Lacunites2 sites
- Orbithele2 sites
- Paleosphaeronites crateriformis2 sites
- Poramborthis2 sites
- Robertorthis2 sites
- Siphonobolus2 sites
- Acrotreta1 site
- Agerina clymene1 site
- Agerina ferrigena1 site
- Anacheirurus bohemicus1 site
- Apatokephalus dagmarae1 site
- Apheoorthina ferrigena1 site
- Conotreta1 site
- Cyathophycus1 site
- Dictyonema flabelliforme intermedium1 site
- Echinosphaerites concomitans1 site
- Elkanisca1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ferrobolus, 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
3 references- Index of Fossiliferous Localities of the Trenice Formation (Lower Ordovician of the Prague Basin, Czech Republic)1
- Cambrian-Ordovician lingulate brachiopods from Scandinavia, Kazakhstan, and South Ural Mountains1
- The biostratigraphy of the Ordovician of Bohemia1
Each of the 3 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 Ferrobolus 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 Ferrobolus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ferrobolus 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 itDysoristidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Havlicek 1982