Salopia

Salopia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LinoporellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 461 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 468 Mya to 421.6 Mya.

Ordovician — about 33 of 35 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 2 of 35 occurrencesSilurian469–467 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 1 occurrence461–459 Mya — about 6 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 9 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 9 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 3 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 1 occurrence448–446 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences445–443 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences461 Mya422.7 Mya468.9 Mya420.7 Mya

35 occurrences of Salopia 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

35 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

20 formations

Campile — 53.44°N, 7.23°WCampile — 53.22°N, 7.93°WCampile — 53.45°N, 7.17°WFfairfach Flags and Grits — 52.00°N, 4.00°WWhittery Shales — 52.67°N, 2.00°WFfairfach Pebbly Sands — 52.00°N, 4.00°WFfairfach Ashes and Lavas — 52.00°N, 4.00°WFfairfach Conglomerates — 52.00°N, 4.00°WTramore Limestone — 52.15°N, 7.16°WGelli-Grin — 53.00°N, 4.00°WWufeng — 32.00°N, 107.00°ENavas de Estena — 39.00°N, 4.00°WDerfel Limestone — 52.90°N, 3.58°WSpy Wood Grit — 52.67°N, 2.00°WHagley Shales — 52.67°N, 2.00°WGrange Allen — 53.50°N, 7.17°WSholeshook — 51.80°N, 4.55°WNant Hir Mudstones — 52.92°N, 3.60°WDunabrattin Limestone — 52.14°N, 7.35°WGur'yanovka — 52.22°N, 87.01°EKaugatuma — 57.41°N, 21.57°ERiga — 54.65°N, 23.03°E

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The named rock units Salopia 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.

Salopia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Salopia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

337 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Salopia, 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

14 references

Each of the 35 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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 Salopia

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Salopia 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 itLinoporellidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Williams 1955