Shumardia

Shumardia

Apokryltaros · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ShumardiidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
blindPBDB, for Shumardiidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 445.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 10 of 170 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 160 of 170 occurrencesOrdovician498–496 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences496–494 Mya — about 1 occurrence494–493 Mya — about 1 occurrence493–491 Mya — about 1 occurrence491–489 Mya — about 2 occurrences489–487 Mya — about 3 occurrences487–485 Mya — about 9 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 15 occurrences484–482 Mya — about 16 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 15 occurrences480–478 Mya — about 15 occurrences478–476 Mya — about 11 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 6 occurrences475–473 Mya — about 9 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 7 occurrences471–469 Mya — about 5 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 4 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 4 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 4 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 4 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 4 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 5 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 5 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 3 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 4 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 3 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 3 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 4 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 3 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 1 occurrence486.85 Mya449.5 Mya498 Mya444 Mya

170 occurrences of Shumardia 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

170 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

65 formations

Saergan — 40.64°N, 79.50°ECwmhesgen — 52.86°N, 3.81°WTinu — 17.37°N, 97.17°WTinu — 17.47°N, 97.23°WTinu — 17.03°N, 97.23°WTinu — 17.03°N, 96.57°WNinemile — 39.10°N, 116.26°WNinemile — 37.00°N, 116.00°WNinemile — 36.65°N, 116.17°WNinemile — 39.20°N, 116.25°WNinemile — 37.34°N, 115.38°WNantsinkwan — 28.62°N, 109.47°ENantsinkwan — 28.79°N, 109.29°EDomusnovas — 40.34°N, 8.69°EDomusnovas — 39.33°N, 8.67°EDomusnovas — 39.44°N, 8.42°EValhallfonna — 79.00°N, 18.00°EValhallfonna — 79.80°N, 17.76°ETable Cove — 50.36°N, 57.54°WTable Cove — 50.24°N, 57.59°WTøyen — 59.72°N, 9.85°ETøyen — 59.92°N, 9.97°ETøyen — 59.92°N, 10.78°EVolcancito — 28.87°S, 67.75°WVolcancito — 29.33°S, 67.80°WVolcancito — 28.87°S, 67.69°WDeh-Molla U16 — 36.36°N, 54.75°EChedao — 37.00°N, 107.00°EChedao — 36.00°N, 107.00°EChedao — 36.08°N, 106.75°EGoodwin — 39.10°N, 116.26°WGoodwin — 39.20°N, 116.25°WPontyfenni — 52.00°N, 5.00°WShineton Shales — 52.63°N, 2.58°WShineton Shales — 52.63°N, 2.66°WCeratopyge — 58.00°N, 14.00°ECeratopyge — 55.58°N, 14.13°EDawan — 33.00°N, 111.00°EDawan — 30.90°N, 111.39°ENanjinguan — 29.00°N, 109.00°ENanjinguan — 30.00°N, 111.00°ETongzi — 28.00°N, 109.00°ETongzi — 29.00°N, 109.00°EYinzhupu — 29.00°N, 115.00°EYinzhupu — 28.00°N, 118.00°EHuangnigang — 30.00°N, 120.00°EHuangnigang — 29.00°N, 119.00°EGuanacuna — 17.62°S, 62.22°WGuanacuna — 22.00°S, 65.00°WAntelope Valley — 36.88°N, 116.65°WSimeh-Kuh — 36.21°N, 54.23°E

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The named rock units Shumardia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 41 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Shumardia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Shumardia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

898 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 167 sites for Shumardia, 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

79 references

Each of the 170 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. 67 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 Shumardia

Credit
Apokryltaros
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Shumardia 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. Billings 1862