Skelidorygma
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SkelidorygmidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 3.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 342.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
10 occurrences of Skelidorygma on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
10 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
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The named rock units Skelidorygma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Skelidorygma and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Skelidorygma and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Eumetria4 sites
- Mesocyridira washingtonensis4 sites
- Unispirifer4 sites
- Pleapopleurus tenuicostatus3 sites
- Warsawia lateralis3 sites
- Calvustrigis2 sites
- Dielasma2 sites
- Echinoconchus alternatus2 sites
- Imbrexia2 sites
- Mesocyridira aff. pellaensis2 sites
- Mesocyridira bifurcata2 sites
- Mesocyridira flagrocosta2 sites
- Mesocyridira keokuk2 sites
- Orthotetes keokuk2 sites
- Perditocardinia dubia2 sites
- Planalvus densa2 sites
- Punctospirifer solidirostris2 sites
- Torynifer pseudolineatus2 sites
- Voiseyella2 sites
- Axiodeaneia1 site
- Beecheria1 site
- Brachythyris chouteauensis1 site
- Cleiothyridina1 site
- Cleiothyridina hirsuta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Skelidorygma, 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
2 references- Occurrence and Biochronology of Middle Missississian Brachiopods of the Ramp Creek Formation and Harrodsburg Limestone, Indiana and Kentucky7
- Lower Carboniferous brachiopods from the Banff Formation of Western Alberta3
Each of the 10 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 Skelidorygma was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Skelidorygma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Skelidorygma 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 itSkelidorygmidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.