Illaenus alveatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IllaenusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Illaenus
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Illaenus alveatus 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
6 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
3 formations
- Table Point Formation · Table Head Group4
- Table Cove Formation · Table Head Group1
- Antelope Valley Formation · Pogonip Group1
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The named rock units Illaenus alveatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Illaenus alveatus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Illaenus alveatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Pseudomera barrandei5 sites
- Illaenus fraternus3 sites
- Acidiphorus spinifer2 sites
- Illaenus marginalis2 sites
- Uromystrum2 sites
- Calyptaulax incepta1 site
- Cybelurus mirus1 site
- Eoleperditia1 site
- Geragnostus fabius1 site
- Lonchodomas normalis1 site
- Nileus affinis1 site
- Nileus lacunosa1 site
- Nileus scrutator1 site
- Ostracoda1 site
- Peraspis lineolata1 site
- Plectambonitidae1 site
- Porterfieldia fischeri1 site
- Rhysostrophia occidentalis1 site
- Robergia schlotheimi1 site
- Sivorthis occidentalis1 site
- Stegnopsis solitarius1 site
- Toquimia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Illaenus alveatus, 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
2 references- Trilobites of the Ordovician Table Head Formation, western Newfoundland5
- Ordovician Brachiopods, Trilobites, and Stratigraphy in Eastern and Central Nevada1
Each of the 6 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
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No picture of Illaenus alveatus 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 Illaenus alveatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Illaenus alveatus 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 itIllaenus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Raymond 1925