Sinuites bilobatus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SinuitesPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Sinuitidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Sinuitidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Sinuitidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 459.7 Mya to 445.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 468 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
17 occurrences of Sinuites bilobatus 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
13 formations
- Hull Formation3
- Ellis Bay Formation2
- Schistes d'Angers Formation2
- Vauréal Formation1
- Vaureal Formation1
- Bardahessiagh Formation1
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The named rock units Sinuites bilobatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sinuites bilobatus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Sinuites bilobatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
365 taxa- Hormotoma gracilis5 sites
- Clathrospira subconica4 sites
- Liospira americana4 sites
- Arjamannia sybellina3 sites
- Brachytomaria papillosa3 sites
- Cyclonema thalia3 sites
- Lytospira nitida3 sites
- Paupospira circe3 sites
- Paupospira moorei3 sites
- Paupospira tropidophora3 sites
- Anticostia teres2 sites
- Archinacellina modesta2 sites
- Boreadorthis sadewitziensis2 sites
- Bucania cornu2 sites
- Chasmops2 sites
- Chasmops wesenbergensis2 sites
- Cyclonema lineatum2 sites
- Cyrtodonta2 sites
- Cyrtospira notata2 sites
- Decoroproetus2 sites
- Eroicaspira bellicincta2 sites
- Grandostoma grande2 sites
- Holopea ampullacea2 sites
- Holopea filosus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Sinuites bilobatus, 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
9 references- Geology of Anticosti Island4
- Les Gastéropodes de l’Ordovicien moyen en Anjou3
- Gastropoda and Conularida of the Ottawa Formation of the Ottawa - St. Lawrence Lowland3
- Стратиграфія ордовику Придністров’я (Ordovic Stratigraphy of Transnistria) (= Ordovic Stratigraphy of Transdniestria)2
- Isostrophic molluscs (Tergomya and Gastropoda) from the Upper Ordovician of Norway1
- The biostratigraphy of the Ordovician of Bohemia1
- Koken and Perner, 19251
- Perner, 19031
- Portlock, 18431
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. 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 Sinuites bilobatus
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No 3D scan of Sinuites bilobatus 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 itSinuites through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (de Sowerby and Murchison 1839)