Signetopsis

No picture of Signetopsis 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 Signetopsis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SignetopsidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 2.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 425 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 430.6 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Silurian — about 7 of 7 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 7 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences421–421 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences425 Mya422.7 Mya431.1 Mya419.1 Mya

7 occurrences of Signetopsis on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

7 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

4 formations

Muksha subsuite — 48.00°N, 26.00°EKlenova — 71.00°N, 58.00°EKalvitza — 71.00°N, 58.00°EMaizass — 57.03°N, 78.35°E

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The named rock units Signetopsis 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.

Signetopsis and its relatives

Silurian

Where Signetopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

91 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Signetopsis, 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

4 references

Each of the 7 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

Media content0

No picture of Signetopsis 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 Signetopsis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Signetopsis 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 itSignetopsidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Henningsmoen 1954