Shivaella

Shivaella

American Museum of Natural History · CC0 · 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
ParaparchitidaePBDB
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 92 million years on record.

The record covers at least 351.9 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 7 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 4 of 7 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 7 occurrencesPermian361–357 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences357–354 Mya — about 1 occurrence354–350 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences350–346 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences325–321 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences321–317 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences299–296 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences296–292 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences285–281 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences281–277 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences277–274 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences274–270 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences270–267 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences263–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259–256 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences256–252 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences351.9 Mya259.857 Mya361 Mya252 Mya

7 occurrences of Shivaella on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

7 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

7 formations

New Albany Shale — 38.48°N, 85.75°WRockford Limestone — 38.48°N, 85.75°WMuhua — 25.77°N, 106.38°EGrenzland — 46.58°N, 13.18°EEpiskopi — 37.31°N, 23.42°EE-Lert — 17.31°N, 101.73°EBarnett — 31.04°N, 98.25°W

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

Shivaella and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Shivaella and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

224 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Shivaella, 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

6 references

Each of the 7 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 Shivaella

Source
GBIF
Credit
American Museum of Natural History
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Shivaella 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 itParaparchitidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sohn 1971