Skenidioides

Skenidioides is an extinct genus of brachiopods which existed during the Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian of what is now Australia, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Italy, Morocco, Poland, Ukraine, the United States, Belarus, Estonia, Lithuania, Mexico, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Venezuela, Ireland, Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, and Argentina. It was described by Schuchert and Cooper in 1931, and the type species is S. billingsi. A new species, S. tatyanae, was described by Andrzej Baliński in 2012, from the early Devonian of Ukraine. The species epithet refers to Tatyana Lvovna Modzalevskaya.

Skenidioides

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SkenidiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 77 million years on record.

The record covers at least 468 Mya to 390.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 387.95 Mya.

Ordovician — about 229 of 614 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 309 of 614 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 77 of 614 occurrencesDevonian479–476 Mya — about 1 occurrence476–473 Mya — about 3 occurrences473–470 Mya — about 4 occurrences470–467 Mya — about 4 occurrences467–463 Mya — about 4 occurrences463–460 Mya — about 7 occurrences460–457 Mya — about 24 occurrences457–454 Mya — about 43 occurrences454–451 Mya — about 45 occurrences451–448 Mya — about 41 occurrences448–445 Mya — about 32 occurrences445–442 Mya — about 72 occurrences442–439 Mya — about 98 occurrences439–436 Mya — about 24 occurrences436–433 Mya — about 29 occurrences433–429 Mya — about 47 occurrences429–426 Mya — about 27 occurrences426–423 Mya — about 17 occurrences423–420 Mya — about 12 occurrences420–417 Mya — about 30 occurrences417–414 Mya — about 20 occurrences414–411 Mya — about 17 occurrences411–408 Mya — about 3 occurrences408–405 Mya — about 1 occurrence405–402 Mya — about 1 occurrence402–399 Mya — about 1 occurrence399–395 Mya — about 1 occurrence395–392 Mya — about 1 occurrence392–389 Mya — about 2 occurrences389–386 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences468 Mya390.5 Mya479 Mya386 Mya

614 occurrences of Skenidioides on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

614 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

214 formations

Solvik — 59.92°N, 10.75°ESolvik — 59.86°N, 10.56°ESolvik — 59.85°N, 10.47°EKangaroo Creek — 41.37°N, 122.69°WRoberts Mountain — 39.84°N, 116.35°WRoberts Mountain — 39.94°N, 116.32°WFosses — 50.34°N, 5.08°EFosses — 50.36°N, 4.60°EFosses — 50.41°N, 4.91°ERiga — 54.65°N, 23.03°ERiga — 55.08°N, 25.42°ERiga — 55.24°N, 23.51°EPaprieniai — 55.25°N, 23.15°EPaprieniai — 55.20°N, 23.87°EPaprieniai — 55.67°N, 25.38°EPaprieniai — 54.47°N, 24.62°EWhittaker — 63.77°N, 125.27°WWhittaker — 62.00°N, 127.00°WWhittaker — 62.38°N, 127.00°WÕhne — 58.14°N, 25.37°EÕhne — 57.80°N, 23.24°EÕhne — 58.36°N, 25.57°EÕhne — 58.48°N, 26.38°EÕhne — 58.18°N, 24.81°EÕhne — 58.00°N, 22.03°EÕhne — 58.12°N, 22.19°ETrefawr — 52.12°N, 3.55°WJaani — 58.12°N, 22.19°EJaani — 57.88°N, 24.37°EJaani — 58.25°N, 22.49°EJaani — 58.62°N, 22.54°EJaani — 58.28°N, 24.09°ECape Phillips — 75.13°N, 95.00°WCape Phillips — 75.80°N, 94.50°WWilliamson Shale — 43.22°N, 77.19°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 78.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 77.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 76.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 75.00°WDelorme — 62.40°N, 127.00°WSaarde — 57.80°N, 23.24°ESaarde — 58.14°N, 25.37°ESaarde — 57.88°N, 24.37°ESaarde — 58.39°N, 24.50°ERoad River — 64.77°N, 135.19°WCampile — 53.44°N, 7.23°WCampile — 53.22°N, 7.93°WCampile — 53.45°N, 7.17°WAntelope Valley — 38.05°N, 116.45°WAntelope Valley — 37.34°N, 115.38°WAntelope Valley — 36.88°N, 116.66°WRacine — 43.04°N, 87.91°WRacine — 43.05°N, 88.01°WRacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WMiaopo — 33.00°N, 111.00°EMiaopo — 30.86°N, 111.39°EWenallt — 51.83°N, 3.58°WBostów — 50.90°N, 21.08°EBostów — 51.25°N, 21.57°EBostów — 50.47°N, 21.08°EGarra — 32.58°S, 148.95°EGarra — 33.95°S, 148.82°EGeluva — 55.00°N, 23.30°EGeluva — 55.08°N, 25.42°EGeluva — 54.65°N, 23.03°EKilley Bridge — 54.59°N, 6.90°W

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The named rock units Skenidioides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 190 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 156 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Skenidioides and its relatives

Silurian

Where Skenidioides and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

2,194 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 589 sites for Skenidioides, and this reads 240 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

165 references

Each of the 614 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. 153 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.

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No 3D scan of Skenidioides was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schuchert and Cooper 1931