Sinuites sowerbyi

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SinuitesPBDB
- 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 16 million years on record.
The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 461 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 459.7 Mya.
8 occurrences of Sinuites sowerbyi 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
8 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
5 formations
- Sarka Formation4
- Dobrotiva Formation1
- Schistes de Saint-Chinian Formation1
- Tachilla Formation1
- Saint-Chinian Formation1
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The named rock units Sinuites sowerbyi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sinuites sowerbyi and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Sinuites sowerbyi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
303 taxa- Lesueurilla prima6 sites
- Peruniscus pusillus6 sites
- Cyrtodiscus nitidus5 sites
- Barrandicella ovata4 sites
- Patelliconus primulus4 sites
- Ptychonema desiderata4 sites
- Redonia deshayesi4 sites
- Sinuites reticulatus4 sites
- Barrandicellopsis elevata3 sites
- Pseudarca incola3 sites
- Pseudocyrtodonta ala3 sites
- Ribeiria apusoides3 sites
- Sagittacystis prima3 sites
- Anatifopsis2 sites
- Archaeoconularia insignis2 sites
- Archaeoconularia primula2 sites
- Archegocystis desideratus2 sites
- Asaphellus2 sites
- Babinka prima2 sites
- Bactrotheca teres2 sites
- Bohemilla stupenda2 sites
- Brephocharieis complicata2 sites
- Caryocaris wrighti2 sites
- Chinianaster levyi2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Sinuites sowerbyi, 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
7 references- The biostratigraphy of the Ordovician of Bohemia2
- Barrandicellopsis, a new Ordovician archinacelloid genus (Mollusca, Gastropoda)1
- Ordovician Tergomya and Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Anti-Atlas (Morocco)1
- Babin et al., 19821
- Mollusques monoplacopheres et gastropodes1
- Lower Paleozoic Bellerophontina (Gastropoda) of Bohemia1
- Perner, 19031
Each of the 8 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 content1

Picture of Sinuites sowerbyi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Sinuites sowerbyi 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Perner 1903