Gasconadia

Gasconadia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SinuopeidaePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 450 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 486.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 490.2 Mya to 457.3 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 21 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 20 of 21 occurrencesOrdovician491–490 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences489–487 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 1 occurrence486–485 Mya — about 3 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 3 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 2 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 2 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 2 occurrences481–479 Mya — about 2 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 2 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 2 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486.85 Mya – 486.4 Mya490.9 Mya456.6 Mya

21 occurrences of Gasconadia 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

21 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

9 formations

Chepultepec — 36.75°N, 82.25°WChepultepec — 36.73°N, 81.77°WChepultepec — 38.80°N, 78.55°WChepultepec — 35.07°N, 85.58°WTanyard — 30.27°N, 97.74°WTanyard — 31.07°N, 98.70°WTanyard — 31.25°N, 98.72°WTribes Hill — 42.94°N, 74.28°WTribes Hill — 43.02°N, 74.74°WOneota Dolomite — 44.40°N, 92.08°WOneota Dolomite — 43.17°N, 89.07°WOneota Dolomite — 43.54°N, 91.18°WGasconade Dolomite — 38.35°N, 93.07°WGasconade Dolomite — 37.95°N, 91.38°WGasconade — 37.97°N, 91.33°WGasconade — 37.92°N, 91.10°WGreat Meadows — 43.91°N, 73.42°WStonehenge Limestone — 39.63°N, 77.82°WEminence — 37.92°N, 92.75°W

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The named rock units Gasconadia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Gasconadia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Gasconadia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

108 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Gasconadia, 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

11 references

Each of the 21 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 content1

Picture of Gasconadia

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

No 3D scan of Gasconadia 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 itSinuopeidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weller and St. Clair 1928