Saundersites illinoisiensis
No picture of Saundersites illinoisiensis 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 Saundersites illinoisiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SaundersitesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 309.8 Mya and 307.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Saundersites illinoisiensis on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
2 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
- Carbondale Formation · Kewanee Group2
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The named rock units Saundersites illinoisiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Saundersites illinoisiensis and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Saundersites illinoisiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Amphibamus grandiceps1 site
- Archisymplectes rhothon1 site
- Bactrites1 site
- Eoctonus miniatus1 site
- Eubleptus danielsi1 site
- Eucaenus ovalis1 site
- Gerarus vetus1 site
- Gilpichthys greeni1 site
- Hexecontasoma carinatum1 site
- Mazonia woodiana1 site
- Paleocadmus1 site
- Paleocadmus pohli1 site
- Paucijaculum samamithion1 site
- Pipiscius zangerli1 site
- Poliochera gibbsi1 site
- Priapulites konecniorum1 site
- Prochoroptera calopteryx1 site
- Schistoceratidae1 site
- Squirmarius testai1 site
- Srokalarva berthei1 site
- Stearoceras1 site
- Syntonoptera schucherti1 site
- Tardisia brodeae1 site
- Titanoscorpio douglassi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Saundersites illinoisiensis, 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
2 references- A Late Carboniferous coleoid cephalopod from the Mazon Creek Lagerstätte (USA), with a radula, arm hooks, mantle tissues, and ink1
- Ten-armed fossil cephalopod from the Pennsylvanian of Illinois1
Each of the 2 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 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 Saundersites illinoisiensis 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 Saundersites illinoisiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Saundersites illinoisiensis 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.
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What may have been alongside itSaundersites through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Doguzhaeva et al. 2007