Christiania trentonensis
No picture of Christiania trentonensis 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 Christiania trentonensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChristianiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Christiania
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Christiania
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Christiania
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 8.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 449.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Christiania trentonensis 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
4 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
3 formations
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Christiania trentonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Christiania trentonensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Christiania trentonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Paucicrura rogata3 sites
- Bellimurina (Bellimurina) charlottae2 sites
- Bimuria2 sites
- Lingulasma2 sites
- Reuschella2 sites
- Acanthoparypha1 site
- Ampyx1 site
- Apianurus1 site
- Asaphida1 site
- Batostoma1 site
- Bilobia pisum1 site
- Ceratocephala1 site
- Ceraurus1 site
- Cryptolithus1 site
- Cyclocrinites pyriformis1 site
- Dalmanitidae1 site
- Diacanthaspis1 site
- Dimeropyge1 site
- Echinosphaerites aurantium1 site
- Elliptoglossa ovalis1 site
- Encrinuroides1 site
- Eoplectodonta1 site
- Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) alternata1 site
- Flexicalymene1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Christiania trentonensis, 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
2 references- Lower Middle Ordovician stratigraphy of the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia3
- Chazyan and related brachiopods1
Each 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. 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 Christiania trentonensis 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 Christiania trentonensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Christiania trentonensis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itChristiania through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ruedemann 1909