Illaenus sinensis
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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 least 9.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 468 Mya to 458.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 449.4 Mya.
9 occurrences of Illaenus sinensis 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
9 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Illaenus sinensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Illaenus sinensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Illaenus sinensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Nileus walcotti7 sites
- Mioptychopyge trinodosa6 sites
- Liomegalaspides major5 sites
- Zhenganites xinjiangensis5 sites
- Ovalocephalus primitivus extraneus4 sites
- Birmanites brevicus3 sites
- Nanillaenus3 sites
- Pseudocalymene quadrata3 sites
- Ampyxina2 sites
- Carolinites ichangensis2 sites
- Gog yangtzeensis2 sites
- Ptychopyge2 sites
- Eccoptochile1 site
- Hanchungolithinae1 site
- Hemisphaerocoryphe elliptica1 site
- Hexacopyge nasuta1 site
- Isoteloides1 site
- Liomegalaspides blackwelderi1 site
- Ningkianites1 site
- Ogmasaphus hannanicus1 site
- Opsimasaphus1 site
- Rhombampyx yii1 site
- Yanhaoia huayinshanensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Illaenus sinensis, 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
3 references- Ordovician trilobites from the Dawangou Formation, Kalpin, Xinjiang, north-west China6
- On the Ordovician trilobites in central China2
- Early Ordovician (Arenig) trilobite palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography of the South China Plate1
Each of the 9 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 sinensis 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 sinensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Illaenus sinensis 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.
Keep going
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. Yabe 1920