Elita

Elita

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ElythinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 375.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 422.7 Mya to 372.15 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 209 occurrencesDevonian — about 209 of 209 occurrencesDevonian424–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences420–418 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 1 occurrence411–410 Mya — about 2 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 2 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 2 occurrences406–404 Mya — about 2 occurrences404–403 Mya — about 2 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 2 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 2 occurrences399–397 Mya — about 2 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 2 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 2 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 10 occurrences392–390 Mya — about 13 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 13 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 29 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 41 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 41 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 30 occurrences382–380 Mya — about 2 occurrences380–378 Mya — about 2 occurrences378–376 Mya — about 1 occurrence376–375 Mya — about 1 occurrence375–373 Mya — about 2 occurrences373–371 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences413.02 Mya375.2 Mya424 Mya371 Mya

209 occurrences of Elita on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

209 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

38 formations

Ludlowville — 42.78°N, 78.79°WLudlowville — 42.85°N, 78.64°WLudlowville — 42.86°N, 77.76°WLudlowville — 42.87°N, 77.88°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 77.81°WLudlowville — 42.88°N, 78.57°WLudlowville — 42.96°N, 78.13°WLudlowville — 42.80°N, 77.27°WLudlowville — 42.78°N, 76.99°WLudlowville — 42.86°N, 76.35°WLudlowville — 42.93°N, 76.22°WLudlowville — 42.77°N, 76.71°WLudlowville — 42.75°N, 76.77°WLudlowville — 42.86°N, 76.51°WLudlowville — 42.73°N, 76.71°WLudlowville — 42.89°N, 76.75°WLudlowville — 42.84°N, 76.33°WLudlowville — 42.89°N, 76.14°WLudlowville — 42.79°N, 75.56°WLudlowville — 42.81°N, 75.54°WLudlowville — 42.76°N, 76.47°WMoscow — 42.71°N, 78.94°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 78.68°WMoscow — 42.90°N, 78.04°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 77.90°WMoscow — 42.75°N, 77.01°WMoscow — 42.79°N, 76.15°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 76.03°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 75.91°WMoscow — 42.76°N, 75.73°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 75.57°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 75.48°WMoscow — 42.58°N, 75.06°WMoscow — 42.59°N, 74.96°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.82°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.87°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.83°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 77.57°WMoscow — 42.78°N, 77.33°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 76.95°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.50°WTully — 42.66°N, 75.38°WTully — 42.60°N, 75.34°WTully — 42.79°N, 75.80°WTully — 42.53°N, 76.53°WTully — 42.74°N, 75.88°WTully — 42.76°N, 75.73°WTully — 42.61°N, 74.98°WTully — 42.53°N, 76.59°WTully — 42.53°N, 75.13°WOnondaga — 42.95°N, 76.17°WOnondaga — 42.92°N, 78.25°WOnondaga — 42.18°N, 73.95°WOnondaga — 42.08°N, 73.97°WOnondaga — 42.26°N, 73.90°WOnondaga — 42.59°N, 74.93°WOnondaga — 42.96°N, 78.74°WOnondaga — 42.65°N, 74.08°WOnondaga — 42.00°N, 74.00°WOnondaga — 43.00°N, 75.00°WMahantango — 40.50°N, 77.25°WMahantango — 40.05°N, 77.52°WMahantango — 40.42°N, 77.17°WMahantango — 40.42°N, 77.00°WSkaneateles — 42.92°N, 76.21°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 75.89°WSkaneateles — 42.90°N, 76.29°WSkaneateles — 42.89°N, 76.13°WCoralville — 42.50°N, 92.00°WCoralville — 41.67°N, 91.53°WCoralville — 42.37°N, 92.41°WAmherstburg — 43.98°N, 81.28°WWilliams Island — 50.36°N, 81.58°WGeneseo — 42.67°N, 75.59°WJaycox — 42.85°N, 77.83°WJaycox — 42.89°N, 77.70°WJaycox — 42.82°N, 77.29°WMcColley Canyon — 40.13°N, 116.10°WMcColley Canyon — 40.16°N, 116.06°WMcColley Canyon — 39.93°N, 116.30°WLime Creek — 43.00°N, 93.00°WCano Grande — 10.50°N, 72.50°WSolonchatskaya — 51.77°N, 59.10°ELittle Cedar — 42.37°N, 92.41°WHarrell — 40.42°N, 77.00°WYehlan — 22.00°N, 108.00°EIndependence Shale — 42.07°N, 92.07°WAmana Beds — 41.68°N, 92.07°WFloresta-Labateca — 5.85°N, 72.88°WSilica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WStooping River — 51.00°N, 81.50°WEsopus — 41.35°N, 74.11°W

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The named rock units Elita has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Elita and its relatives

Devonian

Where Elita and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

784 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 171 sites for Elita, 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

45 references

Each of the 209 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. 33 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 content1

Picture of Elita

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

No 3D scan of Elita 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 itElythinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.