Obolus apollinis

Obolus apollinis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ObolusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Obolidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Obolidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Obolidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Lingulata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 26 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 471.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 1 of 5 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 4 of 5 occurrencesOrdovician498–497 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences497–496 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences494–493 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences493–492 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences481–481 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences497.5 Mya470.8 Mya

5 occurrences of Obolus apollinis 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

5 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

3 formations

Kallavere — 58.99°N, 22.61°EKallavere — 59.30°N, 26.56°ETosnensky — 59.66°N, 30.68°ETosnenskaya — 58.24°N, 29.08°E

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The named rock units Obolus apollinis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Obolus apollinis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Obolus apollinis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

11 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Obolus apollinis, 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

2 references

Each of the 5 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 content1

Picture of Obolus apollinis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Eichwald 1829