Sinuitidae

Sinuitidae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 140 million years on record.

The record covers at least 483.4 Mya to 342.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 335.4 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 387 occurrencesOrdovician — about 384 of 387 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 387 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 387 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 387 occurrencesCarboniferous490–485 Mya — about 2 occurrences485–479 Mya — about 2 occurrences479–474 Mya — about 3 occurrences474–469 Mya — about 8 occurrences469–464 Mya — about 37 occurrences464–458 Mya — about 37 occurrences458–453 Mya — about 116 occurrences453–448 Mya — about 146 occurrences448–443 Mya — about 34 occurrences427–422 Mya — about 1 occurrence416–411 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences411–406 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences348–343 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences343–338 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences338–332 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences483.4 Mya342.9 Mya490 Mya332 Mya

387 occurrences of Sinuitidae 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

387 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

151 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°WSarka — 50.00°N, 14.00°ESarka — 49.73°N, 13.60°ESarka — 49.77°N, 13.60°ESarka — 50.12°N, 14.38°EWaynesville — 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°WHull — 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°ENavas de Estena — 39.47°N, 4.48°WNavas de Estena — 39.00°N, 4.00°WBalclatchie — 54.48°N, 5.67°WBalclatchie — 55.23°N, 4.87°WScales Shale — 42.00°N, 90.50°WScales Shale — 43.02°N, 91.73°WChaumont — 45.88°N, 76.93°WChaumont — 45.42°N, 75.74°WChaumont — 45.43°N, 75.53°WChaumont — 45.33°N, 75.72°WKraluv Dvur — 49.87°N, 14.00°EKraluv Dvur — 50.06°N, 14.30°EKraluv Dvur — 50.00°N, 14.00°EFairview — 39.47°N, 87.41°WFairview — 39.00°N, 84.00°WFairview — 39.01°N, 84.45°WIon — 42.00°N, 90.50°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°WKosov — 50.00°N, 14.00°EKosov — 50.08°N, 14.62°EKosov — 49.93°N, 14.05°E

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The named rock units Sinuitidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 127 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sinuitidae and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Sinuitidae and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

2,031 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 317 sites for Sinuitidae, 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

96 references

Each of the 387 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. 84 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 Sinuitidae

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Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sinuitidae 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. Dall 1913