Isotelus harrisi

Isotelus harrisi

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
IsotelusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Asaphidae
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.

Ordovician — about 72 of 72 occurrencesOrdovician471–471 Mya — about 3 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 3 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 3 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 3 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 3 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 3 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 3 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 3 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 3 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 3 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 3 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 3 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 3 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 3 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 3 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 3 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 3 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 3 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 3 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 3 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 3 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 3 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 3 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 3 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 3 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 3 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 3 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 3 occurrences471.8 Mya456.8 Mya

72 occurrences of Isotelus harrisi 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

72 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

5 formations

Valcour — 44.61°N, 73.42°WValcour — 44.87°N, 73.41°WValcour — 44.86°N, 73.34°WValcour — 44.30°N, 73.31°WCrown Point — 44.61°N, 73.42°WCrown Point — 44.58°N, 73.53°WCrown Point — 44.88°N, 73.44°WCrown Point — 43.95°N, 73.44°WDay Point — 44.62°N, 73.44°WDay Point — 44.83°N, 73.35°WDay Point — 44.84°N, 73.36°WDay Point — 44.87°N, 73.48°WMingan — 50.21°N, 63.45°WMingan — 50.21°N, 63.62°WMingan — 50.21°N, 63.75°WMingan — 50.21°N, 63.90°WMingan — 50.20°N, 63.20°WMingan — 50.20°N, 63.34°WSunblood — 61.52°N, 125.73°W

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The named rock units Isotelus harrisi 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.

Isotelus harrisi and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Isotelus harrisi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

173 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 72 sites for Isotelus harrisi, 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 72 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 Isotelus harrisi

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Raymond 1905