Strepsodiscus major
No picture of Strepsodiscus major 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 Strepsodiscus major, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StrepsodiscusPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Bellerophontida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Bellerophontida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Bellerophontida
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida
Time the record covers
At most 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 477.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Strepsodiscus major on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
4 occurrences- Cambrian75%
- Ordovician25%
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
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The named rock units Strepsodiscus major has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Strepsodiscus major and its relatives
CambrianWhere Strepsodiscus major and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Blountia2 sites
- Hypseloconus bonneterrense2 sites
- Tricrepicephalus2 sites
- Gastropoda1 site
- Hemithecella expansa1 site
- Hyolithia indet.1 site
- Irondalia irondalensis1 site
- Kirengella washingtonense1 site
- Ulrichoconus bonneterrense1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Strepsodiscus major, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Paleoecology of two new species of Late Cambrian Hypseloconus (Monoplacophora) from Missouri2
- Some molluscan problematica from the Upper Cambrian - Lower Ordovician of the Ozark uplift1
- Further new Cambrian bellerophont gastropods1
Each of the 4 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 Strepsodiscus major 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 Strepsodiscus major, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Strepsodiscus major 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 itStrepsodiscus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Knight 1948