Strophomena trilobata

No picture of Strophomena trilobata 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 Strophomena trilobata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StrophomenaPBDB
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 least 800 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 451 Mya to 450.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 457.3 Mya to 449.6 Mya.

Ordovician — about 18 of 18 occurrencesOrdovician458–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 2 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 3 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 3 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences451 Mya – 450.2 Mya457.8 Mya449.1 Mya

18 occurrences of Strophomena trilobata 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

18 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

7 formations

Dunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WScales Shale — 44.98°N, 93.27°WScales Shale — 42.00°N, 90.50°WWise Lake — 44.98°N, 93.27°WWise Lake — 42.00°N, 90.50°WCummingsville — 44.50°N, 92.90°WCummingsville — 43.00°N, 90.50°WDubuque — 44.98°N, 93.27°WDubuque — 42.00°N, 90.50°WProsser Limestone — 44.98°N, 93.27°WFarr — 47.45°N, 79.65°W

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The named rock units Strophomena trilobata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Strophomena trilobata and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Strophomena trilobata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

91 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Strophomena trilobata, 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

5 references

Each of the 18 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 Strophomena trilobata 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 Strophomena trilobata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Strophomena trilobata 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 itStrophomena through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Owen 1852)