Illaenus consimilis
No picture of Illaenus consimilis 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 consimilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 consimilis 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
1 formation
- Table Cove Formation · Table Head Group6
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The named rock units Illaenus consimilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Illaenus consimilis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Illaenus consimilis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Galbagnostus galba6 sites
- Lonchodomas normalis6 sites
- Nileus macrops6 sites
- Niobe quadraticaudata6 sites
- Raymondaspis reticulatus6 sites
- Stegnopsis huttoni6 sites
- Telephina (Telephina) americana6 sites
- Ampyxoides semicostatus5 sites
- Cybelurus mirus5 sites
- Geragnostus (Novoagnostus) longicollis5 sites
- Niobe morrisi5 sites
- Porterfieldia fischeri5 sites
- Geragnostus fabius4 sites
- Harpides atlanticus4 sites
- Nileus affinis4 sites
- Robergia schlotheimi4 sites
- <cybelinid>3 sites
- Ceraurinella polydorus3 sites
- Endymionia schucherti3 sites
- Illaenus gelasinus3 sites
- Ischyrophyma tumida3 sites
- Lonchodomas clavulus3 sites
- Peraspis lineolata3 sites
- Pseudomera barrandei3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Illaenus consimilis, 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
2 references- Middle Ordovician Table Head Formation, western Newfoundland4
- Trilobites of the Ordovician Table Head Formation, western Newfoundland2
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
Media content0
No picture of Illaenus consimilis 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 consimilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Illaenus consimilis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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. Billings 1865