Shansiella

Shansiella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PortlockiellidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Portlockiellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Portlockiellidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Portlockiellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Portlockiellidae
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 99 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 372.15 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Devonian — about 2 of 93 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 89 of 93 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 93 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 93 occurrences375–370 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences370–366 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences366–362 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences362–358 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences358–354 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences354–350 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences350–346 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences346–342 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences342–338 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences338–334 Mya — about 2 occurrences334–330 Mya — about 3 occurrences330–325 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences325–321 Mya — about 2 occurrences321–317 Mya — about 2 occurrences317–313 Mya — about 3 occurrences313–309 Mya — about 24 occurrences309–305 Mya — about 27 occurrences305–301 Mya — about 19 occurrences301–297 Mya — about 7 occurrences268–264 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences264–260 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences260–256 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences256–252 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences358.86 Mya259.857 Mya375 Mya252 Mya

93 occurrences of Shansiella 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

93 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

33 formations

Allegheny — 40.77°N, 80.70°WAllegheny — 40.88°N, 80.87°WAllegheny — 40.90°N, 80.85°WAllegheny — 41.40°N, 81.53°WAllegheny — 41.03°N, 80.78°WAllegheny — 39.87°N, 81.70°WAllegheny — 40.77°N, 80.77°WAllegheny — 39.53°N, 82.40°WAllegheny — 40.93°N, 80.48°WAllegheny — 40.78°N, 81.38°WAllegheny — 40.52°N, 81.47°WAllegheny — 40.25°N, 80.87°WAllegheny — 39.47°N, 83.75°WGraham — 33.26°N, 98.12°WGraham — 33.24°N, 98.15°WGraham — 33.16°N, 98.17°WCabaniss — 37.49°N, 94.57°WCabaniss — 37.76°N, 94.46°WCabaniss — 38.28°N, 93.98°WCabaniss — 38.47°N, 93.87°WConemaugh — 39.42°N, 79.33°WConemaugh — 39.84°N, 81.88°WConemaugh — 39.84°N, 81.82°WConemaugh — 40.67°N, 80.89°WFlechado — 36.34°N, 105.60°WFlechado — 36.41°N, 105.57°WWann — 36.57°N, 95.98°WWann — 36.76°N, 96.01°WWann — 36.92°N, 95.81°WGlenshaw — 40.43°N, 79.30°WGlenshaw — 40.38°N, 79.75°WGlenshaw — 40.52°N, 79.95°WCaddo Creek — 33.24°N, 98.08°WCaddo Creek — 32.75°N, 98.53°WCaddo Creek — 31.84°N, 99.03°WIola — 39.11°N, 94.68°WIola — 36.14°N, 96.24°WTsingyuan — 37.45°N, 105.67°ETsingyuan — 39.00°N, 106.00°EMattoon — 39.12°N, 88.57°WMattoon — 39.18°N, 88.60°WLower Limestone — 56.12°N, 3.47°WLower Limestone — 56.07°N, 3.43°WGrindstone Creek — 32.71°N, 98.08°WShale Hill — 34.96°N, 96.52°WDennis — 36.68°N, 95.85°WAmsden — 44.17°N, 106.85°WPilton — 51.08°N, 4.05°WWatahomigi — 36.14°N, 112.89°WHotwells — 51.22°N, 0.63°WEpiskopi — 37.33°N, 23.46°EMiddle Limestone V Cyclothem — 54.30°N, 2.15°WKrebs — 37.79°N, 91.53°WAkasaka — 35.39°N, 136.58°EWewoka — 35.02°N, 96.33°W

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The named rock units Shansiella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Shansiella and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Shansiella and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

990 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 87 sites for Shansiella, 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

32 references

Each of the 93 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. 20 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 Shansiella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Shansiella 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 itPortlockiellidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yin 1932