Shanina
No picture of Shanina was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Shanina itself, so it was not used. 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 Shanina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VlastinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pterioidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pterioidea
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Pterioidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida
Time the record covers
At most 7.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 452.8 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Shanina 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
2 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Shanina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Shanina and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Shanina and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Encrinurella2 sites
- Hyolithes2 sites
- Orthis testudinaria2 sites
- Warburgella2 sites
- ? Carynocrinus cf. aurora1 site
- Ampyx1 site
- Aparchites1 site
- Bekkerella subcrateroides1 site
- Calymene1 site
- Cheirurus1 site
- Christiania1 site
- Heliocrinus sp.1 site
- Illaenus1 site
- Krausella1 site
- Leptellina (Leptellina) llandeiloensis1 site
- Lichas1 site
- Lonchodomas rostratus1 site
- Mioptychopyge thebawi1 site
- Neseuretinus birmanicus1 site
- Ogygites1 site
- Orthis biforata1 site
- Phacops1 site
- Primitia1 site
- Ptilodictya1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Shanina, 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
1 referenceEach 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Shanina was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Shanina itself, so it was not used.
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 Shanina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Shanina 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 itVlastinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.