Shumardia tarimuensis
No picture of Shumardia tarimuensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 tarimuensis, 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 most 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 468 Mya and 452.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
17 occurrences of Shumardia tarimuensis 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- 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Shumardia tarimuensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Shumardia tarimuensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Shumardia tarimuensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Paraperaspis dawangouensis8 sites
- Mendolaspis paradoidyx5 sites
- Taklamakania xinjiangensis5 sites
- Tarimella bituberculata5 sites
- Telephina5 sites
- Birmanites4 sites
- Lisogorites tarimensis4 sites
- Microparia (Quadratapyge) chedaoensis4 sites
- Nanshanaspis tarimuensis4 sites
- Birmanites kanlingensis3 sites
- Telephina angulata3 sites
- Endymionia semielliptica2 sites
- Geragnostus (Novoagnostus) contractus2 sites
- Sphaeragnostus similaris2 sites
- Zhenganites xinjiangensis2 sites
- Bulbaspis1 site
- Cyphoniscus socialis1 site
- Dicellograptus sextans1 site
- Dionide miaopoensis1 site
- Dividuagnostus minus1 site
- Geragnostus (Novoagnostus) longicollis1 site
- Glaphurina1 site
- Leiagnostus1 site
- Lisogorites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Shumardia tarimuensis, 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- Ordovician (Darriwilian-early Katian) trilobite faunas of northwestern Tarim, Xinjiang, China16
- Ordovician trilobites from Chedao, Gansu Province, north-west China1
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 tarimuensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 tarimuensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Shumardia tarimuensis 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 itShumardia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhang 1981