Idiostophia costata
No picture of Idiostophia costata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Idiostophia costata firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 469.4 Mya and 458.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Idiostophia costata 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
2 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
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The named rock units Idiostophia costata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Idiostophia costata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Idiostophia costata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Archaeorthis altaica2 sites
- Atelelasma2 sites
- Bathyurellus2 sites
- Carolinites2 sites
- Ceraurinella frequens2 sites
- Expansograptus2 sites
- Glaphurus2 sites
- Kolymella2 sites
- Phorocephala2 sites
- Pliomera fisheri2 sites
- Pliomerellus2 sites
- Pliomerellus jacuticus2 sites
- Raymondaspis2 sites
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Eoplacognathus pseudoplanus1 site
- Glossograptus1 site
- Isograptus1 site
- Isograptus gibberulus1 site
- Isophragma orientale1 site
- Orthidium1 site
- Paroistodus originalis1 site
- Periodon aculeatus1 site
- Protopanderodus rectus1 site
- Pseudisograptus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Idiostophia costata, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 Idiostophia costata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Idiostophia costata firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.