Idiostrophia prima
No picture of Idiostrophia prima 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 Idiostrophia prima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IdiostrophiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 6.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 475.6 Mya and 469.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Idiostrophia prima 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
5 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Idiostrophia prima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Idiostrophia prima and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Idiostrophia prima and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Antigonambonites2 sites
- Idiostrophia tenuicostata2 sites
- Panderina tetragona2 sites
- Paurorthis resima2 sites
- Plectella2 sites
- Porambonites intermedius2 sites
- Proasaphus primus2 sites
- Tetralobula peregrina2 sites
- Acrotreta subconica1 site
- Angusticardinia striata1 site
- Asaphid indet.1 site
- Idiostrophia digitata1 site
- Krattaspis viridatus1 site
- Leoniorthis robusta1 site
- Megistaspis (Paramegistaspis) estonica1 site
- Neumania erecta1 site
- Ottenbyaspis1 site
- Panderina lata1 site
- Ranorthis1 site
- Ranorthis trivia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Idiostrophia prima, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 5 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 Idiostrophia prima 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 Idiostrophia prima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Idiostrophia prima 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.
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What may have been alongside itIdiostrophia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Popov et al. 2005