Quasillites

Quasillites is a fossil genus of ostracod from the Devonian and Carboniferous Periods.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
QuasillitidaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 35 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 346.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 339.9 Mya.

Devonian — about 49 of 50 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 50 occurrencesCarboniferous389–387 Mya — about 6 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 14 occurrences386–384 Mya — about 14 occurrences384–382 Mya — about 14 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences346–344 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences344–342 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences342–341 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences341–339 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences382.31 Mya346.7 Mya388.9 Mya338.9 Mya

50 occurrences of Quasillites on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

50 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

Silica — 41.68°N, 83.73°WSilica — 42.13°N, 83.60°WSilica — 42.33°N, 83.03°WMoscow — 42.72°N, 78.97°WMoscow — 42.78°N, 78.85°WMoscow — 42.87°N, 78.83°WMoscow — 42.90°N, 78.45°WMoscow — 43.00°N, 78.30°WMoscow — 42.88°N, 78.03°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.88°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 77.77°WBlacourt — 50.83°N, 1.77°EMahantango — 40.50°N, 77.25°WMahantango — 40.42°N, 77.17°WEdwardsville — 39.50°N, 86.50°W

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The named rock units Quasillites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Quasillites and its relatives

Devonian

Where Quasillites and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

503 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Quasillites, 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

5 references

Each of the 50 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

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No picture of Quasillites 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 Quasillites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Quasillites 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itQuasillitidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Coryell and Malkin 1936