Donaldiella

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LophospiridaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Murchisoniina
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Murchisoniina
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 101 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 375.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 483.4 Mya to 372.15 Mya.

Ordovician — about 35 of 37 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 37 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 37 occurrencesDevonian486–482 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences482–478 Mya — about 2 occurrences478–474 Mya — about 4 occurrences474–470 Mya — about 4 occurrences470–466 Mya — about 5 occurrences466–462 Mya — about 5 occurrences462–459 Mya — about 5 occurrences459–455 Mya — about 2 occurrences455–451 Mya — about 2 occurrences451–447 Mya — about 4 occurrences447–443 Mya — about 2 occurrences428–424 Mya — about 1 occurrence378–374 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences374–370 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences477.1 Mya375.2 Mya486 Mya370 Mya

37 occurrences of Donaldiella 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

37 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

15 formations

Xia Majiagou — 40.00°N, 118.00°EXia Majiagou — 39.00°N, 118.00°EXia Majiagou — 36.00°N, 114.00°EXia Majiagou — 42.00°N, 126.00°EMaJiaGou — 42.00°N, 126.00°EMaJiaGou — 39.42°N, 121.75°EMaJiaGou — 39.67°N, 118.25°EMaJiaGou — 41.36°N, 123.39°EKangaroo Creek — 41.36°N, 122.68°WShan Majiagou — 39.67°N, 118.26°EShan Majiagou — 38.00°N, 114.00°ESmithville — 37.30°N, 89.96°WSmithville — 37.41°N, 89.87°WSmithville — 37.16°N, 89.81°WBalnakeil — 58.25°N, 4.50°WBalnakeil — 58.58°N, 4.77°WAntelope Valley — 39.20°N, 116.25°WAntelope Valley — 36.88°N, 116.65°WWaynesville — 39.45°N, 83.83°WKopanina — 49.96°N, 14.18°ESkjølberg — 63.33°N, 8.00°EKangyao — 41.36°N, 123.54°ETable Point — 50.37°N, 57.54°WKowala — 50.92°N, 20.63°EMajiagou — 39.02°N, 125.81°EShalloch — 55.25°N, 4.85°W

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The named rock units Donaldiella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Donaldiella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Donaldiella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

408 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Donaldiella, 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

18 references

Each of the 37 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. 6 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 Donaldiella 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 Donaldiella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Donaldiella 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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What may have been alongside itLophospiridae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cossmann 1903)