Skenidioides elongatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SkenidioidesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Skenidioides
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Skenidioides
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Skenidioides
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 7.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Skenidioides elongatus 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
2 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Skenidioides elongatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Skenidioides elongatus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Skenidioides elongatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
70 taxa- Cyclospira2 sites
- Oxoplecia2 sites
- Parastrophina2 sites
- Petrocrania2 sites
- Anisopleurella1 site
- Bilobia etheridgei1 site
- Bimuria youngiana1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Camerella1 site
- Cameroceras1 site
- Campylorthis discreta1 site
- Christiania perrugata1 site
- Colaptomena concentrica1 site
- Colaptomena leptostrophoidea1 site
- Cremnorthis1 site
- Cryptolithus tessellatus1 site
- Cyclospira nana1 site
- Cyphomena grandis1 site
- Cyrtonotella virginiensis1 site
- Dactylogonia1 site
- Dactylogonia homostriata1 site
- Dalmanella sculpta1 site
- Diacanthaspis cooperi1 site
- Diambonia discuneata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Skenidioides elongatus, 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 referencesEach of the 2 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
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No picture of Skenidioides elongatus 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 Skenidioides elongatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Skenidioides elongatus 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 itSkenidioides through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper 1956