Illaenopsis

Illaenopsis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NileidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
Vision
limitedPBDB
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 23 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 491 Mya and 468 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 0 of 11 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 11 of 11 occurrencesOrdovician492–491 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences484–484 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences480–480 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences491.5 Mya467.5 Mya

11 occurrences of Illaenopsis 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

11 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

Santa Rosita — 23.58°S, 65.37°WPontyfenni — 52.00°N, 5.00°WAcoite — 24.00°S, 66.00°WSaint-Chinian — 43.44°N, 2.89°EVolcancito — 29.33°S, 67.80°WKlabava — 50.00°N, 14.00°ELampazar — 24.55°S, 65.74°WDevendeus — 24.54°S, 65.74°WYinchupu — 28.81°N, 118.62°E

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The named rock units Illaenopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Illaenopsis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Illaenopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

162 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Illaenopsis, 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

7 references

Each of the 11 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 Illaenopsis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Illaenopsis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Salter 1865