Psiloconcha inornata
No picture of Psiloconcha inornata 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 Psiloconcha inornata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CymatonotaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Modiomorphidae
Time the record covers
At most 4.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 450.2 Mya and 445.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Psiloconcha inornata 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
3 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Psiloconcha inornata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Psiloconcha inornata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Psiloconcha inornata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Pholadomorpha pholadiformis2 sites
- Byssonychia praecursa1 site
- Byssonychia radiata1 site
- Byssonychia suberecta1 site
- Ceratopsis oculifera1 site
- Ctenobolbina ciliata1 site
- Cymatonota parallela1 site
- Cyrtolites ornatus1 site
- Ischyrodonta unionoides1 site
- Isotelus gigas1 site
- Modiolopsis ovata1 site
- Pholidops subtruncata1 site
- Psiloconcha sinuata1 site
- Pterinea demissa1 site
- Rafinesquina alternata1 site
- Vlasta americana1 site
- Whitella hindi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Psiloconcha inornata, 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- Upper Ordovician faunas of Ontario and Quebec2
- The Pelecypod Genus Vlasta in the Ordovician of North America1
Each of the 3 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 Psiloconcha inornata 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 Psiloconcha inornata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Psiloconcha inornata 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCymatonota through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich 1893