Symphysurina

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SymphysurinidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 450 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 486.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 490.2 Mya to 471.3 Mya.

Cambrian — about 39 of 156 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 117 of 156 occurrencesOrdovician491–490 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 4 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 5 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 10 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 10 occurrences487–487 Mya — about 10 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 12 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 13 occurrences485–485 Mya — about 13 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 13 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 13 occurrences483–483 Mya — about 6 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 5 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 5 occurrences481–481 Mya — about 5 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 5 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 5 occurrences479–479 Mya — about 5 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 5 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 5 occurrences477–477 Mya — about 3 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486.85 Mya – 486.4 Mya490.7 Mya470.8 Mya

156 occurrences of Symphysurina 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

156 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

21 formations

Survey Peak — 52.88°N, 118.08°WSurvey Peak — 50.78°N, 116.29°WSurvey Peak — 51.18°N, 115.57°WSurvey Peak — 51.50°N, 116.20°WSurvey Peak — 52.03°N, 116.84°WWatts Bight — 48.52°N, 58.48°WWatts Bight — 48.51°N, 58.99°WHouse Limestone — 39.50°N, 113.39°WHouse Limestone — 38.92°N, 113.36°WHouse Limestone — 38.79°N, 113.64°WWilberns — 31.00°N, 99.26°WWilberns — 28.75°N, 99.23°WWilberns — 30.93°N, 99.41°WHouse — 38.88°N, 113.44°WHouse — 38.84°N, 113.36°WHouse — 38.70°N, 113.52°WGreen Point — 49.83°N, 57.87°WGreen Point — 49.68°N, 57.95°WBliss Sandstone — 32.87°N, 107.18°WDeadwood — 47.42°N, 105.59°WDeadwood — 46.83°N, 104.15°WRabbitkettle — 64.59°N, 130.01°WGoodwin — 36.39°N, 116.61°WGoodwin — 36.88°N, 116.66°WGoodwin — 37.12°N, 116.50°WGoodwin — 36.65°N, 116.17°WCass Fjord — 73.53°N, 24.77°WGarden City — 41.97°N, 111.47°WGarden City — 42.11°N, 111.63°WGarden City — 41.52°N, 111.94°WCeratopyge — 58.00°N, 14.00°ECeratopyge — 57.00°N, 17.00°EVal d'Homs — 43.00°N, 3.00°ETribes Hill — 43.55°N, 73.38°WTribes Hill — 42.92°N, 74.42°WSignal Mountain Limestone — 34.82°N, 98.41°WGreat Meadows — 43.91°N, 73.42°WHighgate — 44.48°N, 73.21°WUpper Hales — 38.00°N, 116.00°WAntiklinalbugt — 72.82°N, 25.19°WMarathon — 30.16°N, 103.33°W

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The named rock units Symphysurina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Symphysurina and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Symphysurina and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

242 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 130 sites for Symphysurina, 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

36 references

Each of the 156 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. 24 further references are not listed. 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Symphysurina 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich 1924