Isotelus violaensis
No picture of Isotelus violaensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Isotelus violaensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IsotelusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Asaphidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 7.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Isotelus violaensis 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
2 formations
- Guttenberg Formation · Galena Group1
- Bromide Formation1
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The named rock units Isotelus violaensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Isotelus violaensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Isotelus violaensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Bumastoides1 site
- Ceraurus1 site
- Eobronteus1 site
- Eomonorachus intermedius1 site
- Erratencrinurus vigilans1 site
- Gabriceraurus dentatus1 site
- Isotelus gigas1 site
- Isotelus walcotti1 site
- Raymonidites spiniger1 site
- Sceptaspis lincolnensis1 site
- Thaleops1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Isotelus violaensis, 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
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 Isotelus violaensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Isotelus violaensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Isotelus violaensis 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 itIsotelus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Amati 2014