Ellipsostrenua
Searched as Ellipsostrenua brevifrons. The Paleobiology Database treats Ellipsostrenua as the accepted name.
No picture of Ellipsostrenua 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 Ellipsostrenua, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EllipsocephalinaePBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Ellipsocephalidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 514.5 Mya and 506.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Ellipsostrenua on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
3 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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 Ellipsostrenua has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ellipsostrenua and its relatives
CambrianWhere Ellipsostrenua and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Cuneoaxiella grandis10 sites
- Strenuaeva spinosa5 sites
- Calodiscus lobatus4 sites
- Davidonia puppis3 sites
- Helcionella antiqua3 sites
- Magnicanalis3 sites
- Stenotheca norvegica3 sites
- Ellipsocephalus2 sites
- Helcionelloida2 sites
- Holmia kjerulfi2 sites
- Hyolithellus micans2 sites
- Hyolithes2 sites
- Kjerulfia lata2 sites
- Latouchella costata2 sites
- Lingulella2 sites
- Acrothele bellapunctata1 site
- Botsfordia1 site
- Davidonia rostrata1 site
- Ellipsocephalus gripi1 site
- Helcionella1 site
- Helcionella subrugosa1 site
- Holmia1 site
- Holmia grandis1 site
- Holmia lapponica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Ellipsostrenua, 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 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Ellipsostrenua 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 Ellipsostrenua, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ellipsostrenua 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 itEllipsocephalinae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kautsky 1945