Obolid sp.

No picture of Obolid sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Obolid sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

Time the record covers

At least 3.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 468 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 9 occurrencesOrdovician — about 9 of 9 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 9 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences485–483 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 2 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471.3 Mya – 468 Mya487.7 Mya442.2 Mya

9 occurrences of Obolid sp. 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

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

Valhallfonna — 79.85°N, 17.67°E

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The named rock units Obolid sp. 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.

Obolid sp. and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Obolid sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

17 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Obolid sp., 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

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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Obolid sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Obolid sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Obolid sp. 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.