Sowerbyella sladensis
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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 6.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.2 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
16 occurrences of Sowerbyella sladensis 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
16 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
5 formations
- Slade and Redhill Mudstone Formation11
- Dolhir Formation2
- Glyn Formation1
- Cyrn-y-brain Formation1
- Sholeshook Formation1
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The named rock units Sowerbyella sladensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sowerbyella sladensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Sowerbyella sladensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
122 taxa- Dolerorthis intercostata9 sites
- Zygospira hicksi9 sites
- Onniella jonesi8 sites
- Boreadorthis sheehani6 sites
- Eostropheodonta portfieldensis6 sites
- Neoplatystrophia deani5 sites
- Katastrophomena agrestis4 sites
- Leptaena (Leptaena) semiovalis4 sites
- Leptaena rugosa4 sites
- Sampo transversa4 sites
- Skenidioides4 sites
- Chonetoidea radiatula3 sites
- Cryptothyris magnifica3 sites
- Dalmanella testudinaria3 sites
- Glyptorthis maritima3 sites
- Glyptorthis splendens3 sites
- Gravicalymene quadrata3 sites
- Nicolella actoniae3 sites
- Oxoplecia plicata3 sites
- Skenidioides asteroideus3 sites
- Strophomena3 sites
- Triplesia hintsae3 sites
- Vellamo diversa3 sites
- Acanthocrania elusa2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Sowerbyella sladensis, 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- The Late Ordovician brachiopods of southern Pembrokeshire and adjacent south-western Wales10
- The Ashgill rocks of the Glyn Ceirog district, North Wales4
- Plectambonites and some allied genera2
Each of the 16 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 Sowerbyella sladensis 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 Sowerbyella sladensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sowerbyella sladensis 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSowerbyella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jones 1928