Schmidtella

No picture of Schmidtella 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 Schmidtella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SchmidtellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 470.3 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 105 occurrencesOrdovician — about 105 of 105 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 105 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 0.0 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 2 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 7 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 3 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 3 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 3 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 3 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 3 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 4 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 8 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 9 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 11 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 11 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 9 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 8 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 13 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 3 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–445 Mya — about 1 occurrence445–444 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470.3 Mya449.5 Mya487.7 Mya442.2 Mya

105 occurrences of Schmidtella 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

105 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

36 formations

Ust'Stolbovaya — 62.14°N, 91.56°EUst'Stolbovaya — 62.14°N, 91.49°EUst'Stolbovaya — 62.30°N, 92.12°EAntelope Valley — 39.09°N, 116.85°WAntelope Valley — 38.53°N, 116.40°WAntelope Valley — 37.34°N, 115.38°WAntelope Valley — 37.30°N, 115.80°WAntelope Valley — 39.00°N, 116.62°WBromide — 34.00°N, 97.00°WSunblood — 62.00°N, 127.00°WSunblood — 62.18°N, 126.70°WSunblood — 61.72°N, 125.93°WEsbataottine — 62.00°N, 127.00°WEsbataottine — 61.72°N, 125.93°WEsbataottine — 61.63°N, 125.73°WWhittaker — 62.00°N, 127.00°WWhittaker — 61.48°N, 125.05°WWhittaker — 62.47°N, 124.82°WWhittaker — 61.52°N, 124.87°WIon — 42.00°N, 94.00°WDecorah Shale — 46.00°N, 94.00°WAmarkan — 68.00°N, 88.00°EAmarkan — 62.00°N, 90.00°EPlatteville — 43.00°N, 91.16°WPlatteville — 43.30°N, 91.78°WCummingsville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WDubuque — 46.00°N, 94.00°WDubuque — 42.00°N, 94.00°WGuttenberg — 42.00°N, 94.00°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 94.00°WDecorah — 43.12°N, 91.27°WMaquoketa — 46.00°N, 94.00°WSpechts Ferry — 42.00°N, 94.00°WScales Shale — 42.00°N, 94.00°WFort Atkinson Limestone — 42.00°N, 94.00°WBrainard Shale — 42.00°N, 94.00°WKirenskii-Kudrinskii — 57.00°N, 106.00°EAngir — 68.00°N, 88.00°ESunblood, Esbataottine — 62.00°N, 127.00°WEsbataottine & Sunblood — 62.00°N, 127.00°W

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The named rock units Schmidtella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Schmidtella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Schmidtella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

614 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 87 sites for Schmidtella, 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

22 references

Each of the 105 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. 10 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 content0

No picture of Schmidtella 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 Schmidtella, 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich 1892