Shumardia exopthalmus

No picture of Shumardia exopthalmus 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 Shumardia exopthalmus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 most 5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 475.3 Mya and 470.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 4 of 4 occurrencesOrdovician475–475 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences475.8 Mya469.8 Mya

4 occurrences of Shumardia exopthalmus 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

4 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

3 formations

Ninemile — 37.00°N, 116.00°WNinemile — 36.65°N, 116.17°WFillmore — 39.84°N, 113.46°WAntelope Valley — 36.88°N, 116.66°W

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

Shumardia exopthalmus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Shumardia exopthalmus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

67 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Shumardia exopthalmus, 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

4 references

Each of the 4 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 content0

No picture of Shumardia exopthalmus 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 Shumardia exopthalmus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Shumardia exopthalmus 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. Ross and Barnes 1967