Shlyginia extraordinaria
No picture of Shlyginia extraordinaria was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Shlyginia extraordinaria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ShlyginiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
17 occurrences of Shlyginia extraordinaria 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
17 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 Shlyginia extraordinaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Shlyginia extraordinaria and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Shlyginia extraordinaria and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) akdombakensis11 sites
- Plaesiomys fidelis10 sites
- Weberorthis brevis10 sites
- Nalivkinia (Pronalivkinia)6 sites
- Strophomena (Strophomena) orthonurensis5 sites
- Altaethyrella otarica4 sites
- Anoptambonites kovalevskii4 sites
- Dzhebaglina plicata4 sites
- Bokotorthis kasachstanica3 sites
- Dinorthis3 sites
- Sulcatospira prima3 sites
- Paraoligorhyncha2 sites
- Phaceloorthis recondita2 sites
- Platymena tersa2 sites
- Qilianotryma suspectum2 sites
- Christiania1 site
- Christiania proclivis1 site
- Dulankarella magna1 site
- Glossellinae1 site
- Glyptomenoides1 site
- Grammoplecia subcraegensis1 site
- Karomena squalida1 site
- Paracraniops1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Shlyginia extraordinaria, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Late Ordovician brachiopods from the Otar Member of the Chu-Ili Range, south Kazakhstan15
- Late Ordovician brachiopods from the Dulankara formation of the Chu-ili range, Kazakhstan: their systematics, palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography2
Each of the 17 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Shlyginia extraordinaria was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Shlyginia extraordinaria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Shlyginia extraordinaria 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 itShlyginia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Rukavishnikova 1956)