Shumardia extensa
No picture of Shumardia extensa was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 extensa, 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 least 2.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 452.8 Mya to 450.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 445.2 Mya.
7 occurrences of Shumardia extensa 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
7 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Shumardia extensa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Shumardia extensa and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Shumardia extensa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
81 taxa- Cyclopyge6 sites
- Illaenus angelini4 sites
- Nankinolithus granulatus4 sites
- Symphysops armatus4 sites
- Amphitryon3 sites
- Arthrorhachis tarda3 sites
- Christiania nilssoni3 sites
- Dedzetina serpaglii3 sites
- Dionide3 sites
- Illaenus3 sites
- Jezercia ostiaria3 sites
- Amphoriops inflata2 sites
- Corrugatagnostus convergens2 sites
- Dindymene longicaudata2 sites
- Foliomena folium2 sites
- Glyptorthis2 sites
- Hibbertia2 sites
- Isbergia2 sites
- Kimakaspis kovalevskyi2 sites
- Leangella (Leangella) fecunda2 sites
- Paraphillipsinella2 sites
- Pseudoclimacograptus scharenbergi2 sites
- Symphysops2 sites
- Taklamakania2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Shumardia extensa, 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- Trilobites of the post-Sardic (Upper Ordovician) sequence of southern Sardinia. Part I3
- Late Ordovician trilobites from the Karagach Formation of the western Tarbagatai Range, Kazakhstan2
- Outline of the post-Sardic Ordovician sequence in south-westem Sardinia1
- Ashgillian trilobites from Co. Clare, Ireland1
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 content0
No picture of Shumardia extensa was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 extensa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Shumardia extensa was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itShumardia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Weir 1959)