Schmidtites

Schmidtites

Paalits, I. · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ObolinaePBDB
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 least 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 497 Mya to 458.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 457.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 16 of 53 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 37 of 53 occurrencesOrdovician540–538 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences538–535 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences535–532 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences532–529 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences529–526 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences526–523 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences523–521 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences521–518 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences518–515 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences515–512 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences512–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–506 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences506–504 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences504–501 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences501–498 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences498–495 Mya — about 3 occurrences495–492 Mya — about 4 occurrences492–490 Mya — about 4 occurrences490–487 Mya — about 4 occurrences487–484 Mya — about 5 occurrences484–481 Mya — about 5 occurrences481–478 Mya — about 1 occurrence478–475 Mya — about 1 occurrence475–473 Mya — about 1 occurrence473–470 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences470–467 Mya — about 1 occurrence467–464 Mya — about 2 occurrences464–461 Mya — about 2 occurrences461–458 Mya — about 14 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 2 occurrences497 Mya458.2 Mya540 Mya456 Mya

53 occurrences of Schmidtites 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

53 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

15 formations

Rorrington Beds — 52.67°N, 2.00°WMeadowtown Beds — 52.67°N, 2.00°WTsitre — 59.45°N, 25.67°ETsitre — 59.44°N, 27.21°ETsitre — 59.51°N, 25.50°ETsitre — 59.44°N, 25.02°EFlorentine Valley Limestone — 42.00°S, 146.00°EFlorentine Valley Limestone — 42.72°S, 146.48°EStapeley Shales — 52.67°N, 2.00°WKallavere — 59.49°N, 25.09°EKallavere — 59.44°N, 27.21°EMicklewood Beds — 51.65°N, 2.41°WMytton Flags and Tankerville — 53.00°N, 3.00°WMytton Flags — 52.67°N, 2.00°WAldress Shales — 52.67°N, 2.00°WCampo Pisano — 39.43°N, 8.48°ENinemile — 39.20°N, 116.44°WSuurjögi — 59.34°N, 26.52°ELomashkin — 60.29°N, 29.48°ELadoga — 59.73°N, 30.45°E

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The named rock units Schmidtites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Schmidtites and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Schmidtites and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

134 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Schmidtites, 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

10 references

Each of the 53 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 Schmidtites

Source
GBIF
Credit
Paalits, I.
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Schmidtites 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 itObolinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schuchert and LeVene 1929