Saughina
No picture of Saughina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Saughina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChilidiopsidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 4.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 438.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
27 occurrences of Saughina on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
27 occurrences- Silurian100%
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 Saughina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Saughina and its relatives
SilurianWhere Saughina and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
57 taxa- Leangella scissa23 sites
- Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) duplicata21 sites
- Mendacella mullockiensis19 sites
- Leptaena (Leptaena) haverfordensis14 sites
- Skenidioides woodlandiensis13 sites
- Meifodia prima12 sites
- Stegerhynchus pusillum12 sites
- Dolerorthis sowerbyiana10 sites
- Hindella crassa10 sites
- Stricklandia lens mullochensis9 sites
- Katastrophomena scotica8 sites
- Paracraniops8 sites
- Plectatrypa (Plectatrypa)8 sites
- Eopholidostrophia sefinensis7 sites
- Levenea llandoveriana7 sites
- Clorindinae6 sites
- Kozlowskites gracilis6 sites
- Plectatrypa tripartita tripartita6 sites
- Onniella rava5 sites
- Palaeoleptostrophia antecedens5 sites
- Schizonema capillata5 sites
- Dicoelosia osloensis4 sites
- Stricklandia lens4 sites
- Triplesia woodlandensis4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Saughina, 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
2 references- Early Llandovery brachiopods of Wales25
- Earliest Silurian articulate brachiopods from central Kazakhstan2
Each of the 27 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 Saughina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Saughina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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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What may have been alongside itChilidiopsidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bancroft 1949