Isochilina

Isochilina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
IsochilinidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Leperditicopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Leperditicopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Leperditicopida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 51 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 413.02 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 69 occurrencesOrdovician — about 64 of 69 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 4 of 69 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 69 occurrencesDevonian488–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–483 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences483–481 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences481–478 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences478–476 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences476–473 Mya — about 1 occurrence473–470 Mya — about 3 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 3 occurrences468–465 Mya — about 3 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 3 occurrences463–460 Mya — about 3 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 5 occurrences458–455 Mya — about 12 occurrences455–452 Mya — about 13 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 13 occurrences450–447 Mya — about 2 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences445–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences440–437 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences435–432 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences432–429 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences427–424 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences422–419 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences417–414 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471.3 Mya419.62 Mya488 Mya412 Mya

69 occurrences of Isochilina 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

69 occurrences

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

26 formations

Witten Limestone — 37.00°N, 81.00°WWitten Limestone — 37.11°N, 81.52°WWitten Limestone — 37.02°N, 81.63°WWitten Limestone — 37.03°N, 81.79°WWitten Limestone — 37.10°N, 81.62°WWardell — 37.00°N, 81.00°WWardell — 37.03°N, 81.79°WWardell — 37.02°N, 81.73°WWardell — 37.11°N, 81.52°WWardell — 37.10°N, 81.34°WEggleston — 37.00°N, 81.00°WEggleston — 37.10°N, 81.34°WEggleston — 37.13°N, 81.49°WEggleston — 37.03°N, 81.79°WEggleston — 37.13°N, 81.41°WGratton Limestone — 37.22°N, 81.36°WGratton Limestone — 37.00°N, 81.00°WGratton Limestone — 37.10°N, 81.62°WAntelope Valley — 39.09°N, 116.85°WAntelope Valley — 39.00°N, 116.62°WAntelope Valley — 39.60°N, 116.26°WAylmer — 45.63°N, 74.59°WAylmer — 45.37°N, 75.70°WAylmer — 45.39°N, 75.84°WBigby-Cannon Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WCarillon — 45.38°N, 73.71°WDutchtown — 37.25°N, 89.64°WDutchtown — 37.22°N, 89.53°WFort Cassin — 43.91°N, 73.42°WWhitewater — 39.42°N, 85.01°WCatheys — 35.50°N, 86.50°WLindero — 35.00°S, 68.00°WAmadjuak — 63.72°N, 68.97°WSunblood, Esbataottine — 62.00°N, 127.00°WGull River — 44.67°N, 78.80°WFraenkelryggen — 79.83°N, 12.00°ELexington Limestone — 38.00°N, 84.67°WSunblood — 61.72°N, 125.93°WEsbataottine — 61.72°N, 125.93°WKanosh Fm. — 39.48°N, 114.92°WKennel Creek — 57.88°N, 135.07°WOil Creek — 34.43°N, 97.19°WCrown Point — 44.62°N, 73.41°W

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The named rock units Isochilina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Isochilina and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Isochilina and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

502 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 67 sites for Isochilina, 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

23 references

Each of the 69 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. 11 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Isochilina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Isochilina 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Jones 1858)