Schmidtella transversa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SchmidtellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At most 8.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Schmidtella transversa 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Schmidtella transversa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Schmidtella transversa and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Schmidtella transversa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Acanthobolbina2 sites
- Aparchites2 sites
- Balticella deckeri2 sites
- Bythocypris2 sites
- Bythocypris cylindrica2 sites
- Cryptophyllus2 sites
- Ctenobolbina2 sites
- Dicranella2 sites
- Eohollina2 sites
- Eoprimitia bailyana2 sites
- Eoprimitia cooperi2 sites
- Eoprimitia quadrata2 sites
- Eurychilina2 sites
- Halliella2 sites
- Hyperchilarina2 sites
- Krausella2 sites
- Leperditella2 sites
- Paraparchites2 sites
- Primitiella2 sites
- Primitiopsis2 sites
- Punctaparchites rugosus2 sites
- Schmidtella crassimarginata2 sites
- Winchellatina longispina2 sites
- ? Eoprimitia subnodosa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Schmidtella transversa, 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- Biostratigraphic and paleontological studies2
- Late Ordovician (Sandbian) ostracods from the Ardwell Farm Formation, SW Scotland1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Schmidtella transversa 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 Schmidtella transversa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Schmidtella transversa 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSchmidtella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Harris 1957