Shumardia erquensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ShumardiaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Shumardiidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 484.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 474.9 Mya.
13 occurrences of Shumardia erquensis 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
13 occurrences- Cambrian21%
- Ordovician79%
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
- Volcancito Formation3
- Guanacuna Formation1
- Azul Pampa Formation1
- Devendeus or Saladillo Formation · Santa Victoria Group1
- Taique Formation1
- Digger Island Formation1
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The named rock units Shumardia erquensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Shumardia erquensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Shumardia erquensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
71 taxa- Kainella meridionalis7 sites
- Asaphellus catamarcensis6 sites
- Parabolinella argentinensis6 sites
- Angelina hyeronimi5 sites
- Asaphellus riojanus4 sites
- Geragnostus (Microagnostus) hoeki4 sites
- Leptoplastides marianus4 sites
- Machairagnostus tmetus4 sites
- Parabolina argentina4 sites
- Geragnostus3 sites
- Kainella conica3 sites
- Onychopyge riojana3 sites
- Plicatolina scalpta3 sites
- Sphaerocare globifrons3 sites
- Angelina2 sites
- Geragnostus (Microagnostus) calviformis2 sites
- Gymnagnostus2 sites
- Gymnagnostus perinflatus2 sites
- Jujuyaspis keideli2 sites
- Kainella2 sites
- Lotagnostus2 sites
- Micragnostus2 sites
- Micragnostus vilonii2 sites
- Neoagnostus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Shumardia erquensis, 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
5 references- Ordovician trilobites of Argentina9
- Biostratigraphic significance of the latest Cambrian-earliest Ordovician agnostoid trilobites from Northwestern Argentina1
- La transicion Cambrico-Ordovicico en la Formacion Volcancito (sierra de Famatina, La Rioja, Argentina)1
- Tremadoc trilobites of the Digger Island Formation, Waratah Bay, Victoria1
- El sistema ordovicico en Bolivia1
Each of the 13 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
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No picture of Shumardia erquensis 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 Shumardia erquensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Shumardia erquensis 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 itShumardia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kobayashi 1937