Isiola

A picture published with the record for Isiola. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CardiolidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 1.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 430.6 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Silurian — about 10 of 10 occurrencesSilurian431–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences426.7 Mya425 Mya431.1 Mya422.2 Mya

10 occurrences of Isiola on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

10 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

3 formations

Motol — 50.00°N, 17.78°EMotol — 49.97°N, 14.07°EKopanina — 50.20°N, 12.48°EKopanina — 50.00°N, 14.35°EFluminimaggiore — 39.43°N, 8.50°E

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The named rock units Isiola has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Isiola and its relatives

Silurian

Where Isiola and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

160 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Isiola, 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

4 references

Each of the 10 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Isiola

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Isiola was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itCardiolidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kříž 1976