Illaenus fraternus
No picture of Illaenus fraternus 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 Illaenus fraternus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IllaenusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Illaenus
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Illaenus fraternus 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
7 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
- Table Point Formation · Table Head Group6
- Antelope Valley Formation · Pogonip Group1
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The named rock units Illaenus fraternus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Illaenus fraternus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Illaenus fraternus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Pseudomera barrandei6 sites
- Acidiphorus spinifer4 sites
- Illaenus marginalis4 sites
- Uromystrum4 sites
- Illaenus alveatus3 sites
- Stegnopsis solitarius3 sites
- Calyptaulax incepta2 sites
- Ectenonotus westoni2 sites
- Nileus affinis2 sites
- Xystocrania perforator2 sites
- Anomalorthis lonensis1 site
- Anomalorthis nevadensis1 site
- Desmorthis1 site
- Hesperorthis matutina1 site
- Xystocrania glaucus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Illaenus fraternus, 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
2 references- Trilobites of the Ordovician Table Head Formation, western Newfoundland6
- Ordovician Brachiopods, Trilobites, and Stratigraphy in Eastern and Central Nevada1
Each of the 7 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
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No picture of Illaenus fraternus 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 Illaenus fraternus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Illaenus fraternus 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 itIllaenus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Billings 1865