Anisopleurella
Searched as Anisopleurella ovalifera. The Paleobiology Database treats Anisopleurella as the accepted name.
No picture of Anisopleurella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Anisopleurella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SowerbyellinaePBDB
- 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 most 4.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 450.1 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Anisopleurella 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
2 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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 Anisopleurella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Anisopleurella and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Anisopleurella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
841 taxa- Skenidioides17 sites
- Nicolella16 sites
- Dolerorthis15 sites
- Sowerbyella15 sites
- Leangella12 sites
- Platystrophia11 sites
- Remopleurides11 sites
- Christiania10 sites
- Glyptorthis10 sites
- Illaenus10 sites
- Dalmanella8 sites
- Leptaena8 sites
- Leptellina8 sites
- Lonchodomas7 sites
- Orbiculoidea7 sites
- Petrocrania7 sites
- Sericoidea abdita7 sites
- Tretaspis7 sites
- Ampyx6 sites
- Bimuria6 sites
- Bimuria youngiana6 sites
- Boreadorthis sheehani6 sites
- Conulariida6 sites
- Cyclospira6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Anisopleurella, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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
Media content0
No picture of Anisopleurella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Anisopleurella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Anisopleurella 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 itSowerbyellinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper 1956