Shaninopsis acutirostris
No picture of Shaninopsis acutirostris was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Shaninopsis acutirostris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ShaninopsisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pterioidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pterioidea
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Pterioidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida
Time the record covers
At most 6.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.5 Mya and 443.1 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Shaninopsis acutirostris 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
1 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
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The named rock units Shaninopsis acutirostris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Shaninopsis acutirostris and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Shaninopsis acutirostris and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Acidaspis evoluta1 site
- Ambonychinia corrugata1 site
- Ambonychinia demissa1 site
- Amphilichas dalecarlicus1 site
- Amphilichas latifrons1 site
- Cheirurus1 site
- Cleionychia pulchella1 site
- Cryptothyrella terebratulina1 site
- Cyphaspis1 site
- Decoroproetus asellus1 site
- Eucystis raripunctata1 site
- Eurogrewingkia bilateralis1 site
- Heikea nux1 site
- Holotrachelus punctillosus1 site
- Isocolus sjogreni1 site
- Lichas affinis1 site
- Orbiculoidea gibba1 site
- Panarchaeogonus holmi1 site
- Pompeckia minor1 site
- Primaspis evoluta1 site
- Proetus1 site
- Semicorallidomus whitfieldi1 site
- Siljanostrophia jaanussoni1 site
- Stenoblepharum warburgae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Shaninopsis acutirostris, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Shaninopsis acutirostris was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Shaninopsis acutirostris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Shaninopsis acutirostris 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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What may have been alongside itShaninopsis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Isberg 1934