Vinlandostrophia

Vinlandostrophia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlatystrophiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Platystrophiidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Platystrophiidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Platystrophiidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 7.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 450.2 Mya to 443.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 440.5 Mya.

Ordovician — about 126 of 127 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 127 occurrencesSilurian459–458 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 2 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 2 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 2 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 2 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 2 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 2 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 2 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 2 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 3 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 17 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 27 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 7 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 7 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 7 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 7 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 7 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 7 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 3 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 3 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 3 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 3 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450.2 Mya443.1 Mya458.7 Mya440 Mya

127 occurrences of Vinlandostrophia 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

127 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

24 formations

Fairview — 39.01°N, 84.45°WFairview — 39.03°N, 84.51°WFairview — 39.30°N, 84.40°WFairview — 38.68°N, 83.79°WFairview — 39.07°N, 84.51°WFairview — 39.09°N, 84.57°WFairview — 39.10°N, 84.69°WFairview — 39.16°N, 84.57°WFairview — 39.17°N, 84.91°WFairview — 39.19°N, 84.65°WVaureal — 49.81°N, 64.43°WVaureal — 49.81°N, 64.35°WVaureal — 49.76°N, 63.64°WVaureal — 49.68°N, 63.83°WElkhorn — 39.08°N, 85.25°WElkhorn — 39.08°N, 85.25°WElkhorn — 39.59°N, 84.74°WElkhorn — 39.74°N, 84.64°WElkhorn — 39.77°N, 84.88°WMiamitown — 39.30°N, 84.40°WEllis Bay — 49.50°N, 62.53°WEllis Bay — 49.72°N, 63.83°WEllis Bay — 49.81°N, 64.43°WEllis Bay — 49.82°N, 64.35°WStonington — 45.67°N, 86.97°WStonington — 45.67°N, 86.93°WWaynesville — 39.30°N, 83.98°WWaynesville — 39.44°N, 84.20°WWaynesville — 39.58°N, 84.03°WMcMillan — 39.13°N, 84.52°WMcMillan — 39.20°N, 84.55°WMcMillan — 39.50°N, 84.71°WMcMillan — 39.40°N, 84.56°WArnheim — 39.00°N, 84.00°WArnheim — 39.15°N, 84.64°WLiberty — 38.20°N, 85.57°WLiberty — 37.82°N, 85.45°WWhitewater — 38.00°N, 85.50°WWhitewater — 39.54°N, 84.75°WClays Ferry — 37.59°N, 85.07°WBellevue — 39.30°N, 84.40°WLower Whitewater — 39.83°N, 84.89°WDillsboro — 39.33°N, 85.28°WLeipers — 35.50°N, 86.50°WBeaverfoot — 50.42°N, 115.75°WCalloway Creek — 37.66°N, 85.17°WCorryville — 39.30°N, 84.40°WUpper Whitewater — 39.16°N, 85.31°WSaluda — 39.46°N, 83.91°WLower Whitewater / Elkhorn — 39.77°N, 84.88°WBecscie — 49.72°N, 63.33°WDrakes — 38.07°N, 85.53°W

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The named rock units Vinlandostrophia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vinlandostrophia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Vinlandostrophia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

331 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 116 sites for Vinlandostrophia, 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

16 references

Each of the 127 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. 4 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 content2

Picture of Vinlandostrophia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itPlatystrophiidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zuykov and Harper 2007