Steusloffina

Steusloffina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SteusloffinidaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 457.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 432.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 10 of 11 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 11 occurrencesSilurian472–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–469 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences463–461 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 3 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences443–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457.3 Mya443.1 Mya472.1 Mya432.1 Mya

11 occurrences of Steusloffina 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

11 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

5 formations

Esbataottine — 62.00°N, 127.00°WEsbataottine — 61.63°N, 125.73°WShemaha — 55.00°N, 60.00°EPin — 31.92°N, 78.12°ETauchen — 57.64°N, 27.91°ESubica — 48.58°N, 26.82°E

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The named rock units Steusloffina 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.

Steusloffina and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Steusloffina and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

246 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Steusloffina, 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

8 references

Each of the 11 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 content1

Picture of Steusloffina

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Teichert 1937