Jeffersonia viator
No picture of Jeffersonia viator was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Jeffersonia viator, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- JeffersoniaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Bathyuridae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 6.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 481.7 Mya and 475.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Jeffersonia viator 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Jeffersonia viator has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Jeffersonia viator and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Jeffersonia viator and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Bathyurellus diclementsae1 site
- Bolbocephalus gunnari1 site
- Carolinites1 site
- Ceratopeltis bachensis1 site
- Chapmanopyge1 site
- Chapmanopyge sanddoelaensis1 site
- Licnocephala1 site
- Petigurus groenlandicus1 site
- Phaseolops bobowensi1 site
- Punka latissima1 site
- Uromystrum affine1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Jeffersonia viator, 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 1 occurrence 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 Jeffersonia viator was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Jeffersonia viator, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Jeffersonia viator 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 itJeffersonia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fortey and Bruton 2013