Sigmelasma peepi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SigmelasmaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 2.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 445.2 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Sigmelasma peepi 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
6 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Sigmelasma peepi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sigmelasma peepi and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Sigmelasma peepi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Drabovia minuta4 sites
- Mendacella aerinensis4 sites
- Cataschisma nitida1 site
- Cyclonema rupestre1 site
- Dawsonoceras fenestratum1 site
- Ectomaria nieszkowskii1 site
- Eocryptaenia singularis1 site
- Eriditidae1 site
- Graciloceratidae1 site
- Helicotoma superba1 site
- Holopea filosus1 site
- Hormotoma meyendorfi1 site
- Oncoceratidae1 site
- Orthoceratidae1 site
- Palaeomphalus obtusangulus1 site
- Parvihebetoceras wahli1 site
- Piersaloceras gageli1 site
- Pojetaconcha pygmaea1 site
- Pomerantsoceras tibia1 site
- Porkunioceras tuba1 site
- Pseudosphaerexochus roemeri1 site
- Ruedemannia borkholmiensis1 site
- Ruedemannia lirata1 site
- Ruedemannia tolli1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Sigmelasma peepi, 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
1 referenceEach of the 6 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Sigmelasma peepi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sigmelasma peepi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSigmelasma through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hints 2012