Sowerbyella (Viruella) liliifera
No picture of Sowerbyella (Viruella) liliifera was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Sowerbyella (Viruella) liliifera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Sowerbyella (Viruella)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 1.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458 Mya and 456.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Sowerbyella (Viruella) liliifera 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
15 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 Sowerbyella (Viruella) liliifera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Sowerbyella (Viruella) liliifera and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Sowerbyella (Viruella) liliifera and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Sowerbyella (Viruella) minima4 sites
- Bekkerina dorsata3 sites
- Cyrtonotella2 sites
- Asaphus1 site
- Asaphus (Neoasaphus) nieszkowskii1 site
- Bilobia1 site
- Climacograptus1 site
- Clitambonites squamatus1 site
- Cremnorthis1 site
- Cyrtonotella kuckersiana1 site
- Dalmanellidae1 site
- Dendrograptus1 site
- Echinosphaerites aurantium1 site
- Illaenus1 site
- Kukersella bassleri1 site
- Leptelloidea1 site
- Nicolella1 site
- Palaeosolemya ordovicicus1 site
- Platystrophia1 site
- Platystrophia dentata1 site
- Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) eha1 site
- Sowerbyella (Viruella) limata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Sowerbyella (Viruella) liliifera, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- Strophomenoidea des Ordoviziums und Silurs von Estland 1. Die Gattung SOWERBYELLA Jones12
- The Stratigraphy and Structure of Ordovician Rocks of the South - East Part of the Baltic Basin (Druksiu Area)2
- The geology of the Baltic Republics1
Each of the 15 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Sowerbyella (Viruella) liliifera was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Sowerbyella (Viruella) liliifera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sowerbyella (Viruella) liliifera 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 itSowerbyella (Viruella) through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Opik 1930)