Stegerhynchus borealis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StegerhynchusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Stegerhynchus
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Stegerhynchus
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Stegerhynchus
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 438.6 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 440.5 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Silurian — about 19 of 21 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 2 of 21 occurrencesDevonian441–440 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences435–433 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 5 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 5 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 3 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 2 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences409–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–406 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences406–404 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences404–402 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences402–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences438.6 Mya422.7 Mya441.4 Mya392.5 Mya

21 occurrences of Stegerhynchus borealis on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

11 formations

Slite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°EHalla Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°ENonda — 50.27°N, 119.27°WUpper Visby — 57.63°N, 18.30°ELerberget Marlstone — 57.63°N, 18.30°ESpangande Limestone — 57.63°N, 18.30°ELilla Karlso Limestone — 57.63°N, 18.30°ETernava Suite — 48.87°N, 26.53°EDelorme — 62.38°N, 127.00°WJaani — 58.57°N, 22.29°EVelise — 58.82°N, 24.60°E

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The named rock units Stegerhynchus borealis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Stegerhynchus borealis and its relatives

Silurian

Where Stegerhynchus borealis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

402 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Stegerhynchus borealis, 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

9 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 Stegerhynchus borealis 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 Stegerhynchus borealis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Stegerhynchus borealis 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 itStegerhynchus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Buch 1834)