Youngia steineri
No picture of Youngia steineri 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 Youngia steineri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- YoungiaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cheiruridae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Youngia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 426.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Youngia steineri on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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- Silurian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Youngia steineri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Youngia steineri and its relatives
SilurianWhere Youngia steineri and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Leonaspis4 sites
- Parayoungia brennardi4 sites
- Ceratocephala3 sites
- Protocerauroides3 sites
- Sphaerexochus dimorphus3 sites
- Hesperorthis avalanchensis2 sites
- Odontopleura2 sites
- Spirinella struszi2 sites
- Whitfieldella sulcatina2 sites
- Atrypa (Gotatrypa) variabilis1 site
- Atrypoidea linguata1 site
- Caryogyps grayi1 site
- Contracheirurus1 site
- Deiphon1 site
- Dicoelosia parvifrons1 site
- Epitomyonia amplissima1 site
- Gracianella (Gracianella) lissumbra1 site
- Hadromeros1 site
- Hedeina1 site
- Pectratrypa savagei1 site
- Plectatrypa savagei1 site
- Septatrypa zelia1 site
- Whitfieldella nitida1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Youngia steineri, 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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Youngia steineri 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 Youngia steineri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Youngia steineri 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 itYoungia through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chatterton and Perry 1984