Stapeleyella inconstans

No picture of Stapeleyella inconstans 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 Stapeleyella inconstans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StapeleyellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Trinucleidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stapeleyella
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 2.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 463.3 Mya to 461.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.4 Mya to 458.2 Mya.

Ordovician — about 21 of 21 occurrencesOrdovician469–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 1 occurrence467–467 Mya — about 1 occurrence467–467 Mya — about 1 occurrence467–466 Mya — about 1 occurrence466–466 Mya — about 1 occurrence466–465 Mya — about 1 occurrence465–465 Mya — about 1 occurrence465–465 Mya — about 1 occurrence465–464 Mya — about 1 occurrence464–464 Mya — about 1 occurrence464–463 Mya — about 1 occurrence463–463 Mya — about 1 occurrence463–463 Mya — about 1 occurrence463–462 Mya — about 1 occurrence462–462 Mya — about 1 occurrence462–461 Mya — about 1 occurrence461–461 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences463.3 Mya461.1 Mya469.9 Mya457.7 Mya

21 occurrences of Stapeleyella inconstans 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

21 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

3 formations

Llanfallteg — 51.83°N, 4.35°WLlanfallteg — 51.83°N, 4.67°WLlanfallteg — 51.83°N, 4.77°WLlanfallteg — 51.85°N, 4.92°WSarka — 50.00°N, 14.00°ECyffredm Shale — 51.80°N, 4.63°W

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The named rock units Stapeleyella inconstans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Stapeleyella inconstans and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Stapeleyella inconstans and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

182 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Stapeleyella inconstans, 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 references

Each of the 21 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 Stapeleyella inconstans 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 Stapeleyella inconstans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Stapeleyella inconstans 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 itStapeleyella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Whittard 1955