Sowerbyella gigantea

No picture of Sowerbyella gigantea 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 gigantea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SowerbyellaPBDB
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 19 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 451 Mya and 432.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 14 of 15 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 15 occurrencesSilurian452–451 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 1 occurrence449–448 Mya — about 1 occurrence448–448 Mya — about 1 occurrence448–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–446 Mya — about 1 occurrence446–446 Mya — about 1 occurrence446–445 Mya — about 1 occurrence445–444 Mya — about 1 occurrence444–444 Mya — about 1 occurrence444–443 Mya — about 1 occurrence443–443 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences451.5 Mya432.4 Mya

15 occurrences of Sowerbyella gigantea 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

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

White Head — 48.83°N, 64.48°WWhite Head — 48.52°N, 64.22°WGrande Coupe — 48.54°N, 64.25°W

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The named rock units Sowerbyella gigantea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Sowerbyella gigantea and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Sowerbyella gigantea and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

102 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Sowerbyella gigantea, 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

3 references

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 gigantea 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 gigantea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Sowerbyella gigantea 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. Schuchert and Cooper 1930