Shumardella

Shumardella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PetasmariidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 156 million years on record.

The record covers at least 459.7 Mya to 303.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 461 Mya to 298.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 25 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 25 occurrencesDevonian — about 4 of 25 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 20 of 25 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 25 occurrences464–459 Mya — about 1 occurrence369–363 Mya — about 4 occurrences363–357 Mya — about 1 occurrence357–352 Mya — about 5 occurrences352–346 Mya — about 3 occurrences346–341 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences341–335 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences335–329 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences329–324 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences324–318 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences307–301 Mya — about 9 occurrences301–296 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences459.7 Mya303.7 Mya464 Mya296 Mya

25 occurrences of Shumardella 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

25 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

13 formations

Chappel Limestone — 31.06°N, 99.30°WChappel Limestone — 31.20°N, 98.97°WThree Forks Shale — 45.91°N, 111.85°WThree Forks Shale — 45.89°N, 111.96°WThree Forks Shale — 45.93°N, 111.86°WDennis — 40.40°N, 93.58°WDennis — 38.44°N, 95.13°WIola — 43.26°N, 93.63°WIola — 41.41°N, 94.16°WGlen Park — 39.55°N, 91.04°WGlen Park — 39.50°N, 90.95°WBanff — 53.06°N, 118.13°WHertha — 39.76°N, 93.80°WSwope — 39.76°N, 93.80°WDewey — 43.26°N, 93.63°WStanton — 41.01°N, 96.23°WOread — 40.99°N, 95.86°WLecompton — 41.09°N, 95.19°WDobrotiva — 50.00°N, 14.00°E

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The named rock units Shumardella 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.

Shumardella and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Shumardella and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

305 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Shumardella, 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

7 references

Each of the 25 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. 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 Shumardella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Shumardella 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weller 1910