Sinuites

Sinuites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SinuitidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Sinuitidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Sinuitidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Sinuitidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida

Time the record covers

At least 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 445.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 333 occurrencesOrdovician — about 333 of 333 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 333 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences485–483 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 1 occurrence470–468 Mya — about 6 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 8 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 8 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 7 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 5 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 10 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 11 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 13 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 32 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 31 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 35 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 36 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 72 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 22 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 13 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 12 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 3 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 1 occurrence477.1 Mya445.5 Mya487.7 Mya442.2 Mya

333 occurrences of Sinuites 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

333 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

126 formations

Kope — 38.87°N, 84.46°WKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WKope — 38.80°N, 84.16°WKope — 39.01°N, 84.45°WKope — 39.05°N, 84.37°WKope — 38.43°N, 83.99°WKope — 38.77°N, 84.10°WKope — 39.03°N, 84.54°WKope — 38.65°N, 85.12°WKope — 39.09°N, 84.50°WLexington Limestone — 38.00°N, 84.67°WLexington Limestone — 38.22°N, 84.86°WLexington Limestone — 37.84°N, 84.59°WLexington Limestone — 38.04°N, 84.85°WLexington Limestone — 36.17°N, 86.78°WLexington Limestone — 38.15°N, 84.85°WLexington Limestone — 38.15°N, 84.85°WLexington Limestone — 37.85°N, 84.51°WLexington Limestone — 37.75°N, 84.77°WVerulam — 44.60°N, 78.97°WVerulam — 44.50°N, 78.67°WVerulam — 44.52°N, 78.97°WVerulam — 44.43°N, 78.78°WVerulam — 44.48°N, 78.95°WVerulam — 45.42°N, 75.72°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WWaynesville — 39.45°N, 83.83°WWaynesville — 39.44°N, 84.20°WWaynesville — 39.42°N, 85.01°WWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWaynesville — 39.53°N, 84.08°WWaynesville — 39.38°N, 84.08°WWaynesville — 39.34°N, 84.95°WDenley Limestone — 43.21°N, 75.46°WDenley Limestone — 44.00°N, 75.00°WDenley Limestone — 43.28°N, 75.14°WDenley Limestone — 43.88°N, 75.49°WSarka — 50.00°N, 14.00°ESarka — 49.73°N, 13.60°ESarka — 49.77°N, 13.60°ESarka — 50.12°N, 14.38°EHull — 45.44°N, 75.73°WHull — 45.54°N, 75.00°WHull — 45.62°N, 74.78°WHull — 45.62°N, 74.69°WElnes — 60.00°N, 11.00°EElnes — 60.00°N, 11.17°EElnes — 61.33°N, 8.80°EElnes — 59.92°N, 10.75°EScales Shale — 42.00°N, 90.50°WScales Shale — 43.02°N, 91.73°WNavas de Estena — 39.00°N, 4.00°WNavas de Estena — 39.47°N, 4.48°WChaumont — 45.88°N, 76.93°WChaumont — 45.42°N, 75.74°WChaumont — 45.43°N, 75.53°WChaumont — 45.33°N, 75.72°WFairview — 39.47°N, 87.41°WFairview — 39.00°N, 84.00°WFairview — 39.01°N, 84.45°WIon — 42.00°N, 90.50°WBalclatchie — 54.48°N, 5.67°WBalclatchie — 55.23°N, 4.87°WLexington — 38.04°N, 84.84°WLexington — 37.65°N, 84.77°WDecorah — 43.84°N, 92.19°WDecorah — 44.95°N, 93.07°WHolen — 60.55°N, 14.35°EHolen — 60.86°N, 15.05°EChatwell Flags — 52.67°N, 2.67°WChatwell Flags — 52.48°N, 2.88°WCopenhagen — 39.98°N, 116.27°WPlatteville — 43.00°N, 91.16°WPlatteville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WPlatteville — 43.30°N, 91.78°WCwm Rhiwarth — 53.00°N, 3.00°WMaquoketa — 46.00°N, 94.00°WQuimbys Mill — 42.00°N, 90.50°WQuimbys Mill — 41.85°N, 89.48°WQuimbys Mill — 44.98°N, 93.27°W

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The named rock units Sinuites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 102 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sinuites and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Sinuites and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,871 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 279 sites for Sinuites, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

81 references

Each of the 333 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. 69 further references are not listed. 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 Sinuites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Koken 1896)