Shumardia alata

No picture of Shumardia alata was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikidata and 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 Shumardia alata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ShumardiaPBDB
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 450 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 486.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 477.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 6 of 17 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 11 of 17 occurrencesOrdovician498–497 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences497–496 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences494–493 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences493–492 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences486–486 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences484–484 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences481–481 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences479–479 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences477–477 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences486.85 Mya – 486.4 Mya497.5 Mya476.6 Mya

17 occurrences of Shumardia alata 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

17 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

2 formations

Cwmhesgen — 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°W

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The named rock units Shumardia alata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Shumardia alata and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Shumardia alata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

38 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Shumardia alata, 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

Each of the 17 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 Shumardia alata was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikidata and 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 Shumardia alata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Shumardia alata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itShumardia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Robison and Pantoja-Alor 1968