Sinuites cancellatus

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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 4.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 453.8 Mya to 449.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 445.2 Mya.
97 occurrences of Sinuites cancellatus 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
97 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
41 formations
- Verulam Formation · Simcoe Group17
- Dunleith Formation · Galena Group7
- Denley Limestone Formation · Lower Trenton Group6
- Chaumont Formation5
- Hull Formation5
- Lexington Limestone Formation4
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The named rock units Sinuites cancellatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed.
Sinuites cancellatus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Sinuites cancellatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
738 taxa- Hormotoma gracilis47 sites
- Modiolopsis27 sites
- Trochonema umbilicata27 sites
- Lophospira perangulata26 sites
- Cyrtodonta24 sites
- Cyrtodontula22 sites
- Omospira trentonensis22 sites
- Vanuxemia22 sites
- Cyrtostropha salteri21 sites
- Liospira vitruvia20 sites
- Paucicrura rogata20 sites
- Tetranota sexcarinata20 sites
- Ctenodonta19 sites
- Liospira americana19 sites
- Orthodesma19 sites
- Eunema centralis18 sites
- Isotelus gigas18 sites
- Nuculites18 sites
- Similodonta18 sites
- Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) sericea18 sites
- Tetranota bidorsata18 sites
- Clathrospira subconica17 sites
- Cyclonema textilis17 sites
- Eroicaspira bellicincta17 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 91 sites for Sinuites cancellatus, 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
19 references- Stratigraphic ranges of Middle and Late Ordovician Gastropoda and Monoplacophora of Minnesota23
- Gastropoda and Conularida of the Ottawa Formation of the Ottawa - St. Lawrence Lowland15
- Palaeozoic geology of the Lake Simcoe Area, Ontario14
- Gradient ecology of a biotic invasion: biofacies of the type Cincinnatian Series (Upper Ordovician), Cincinnati, Ohio region, USA8
- Upper Ordovician faunas of Ontario and Quebec8
- Middle and Upper Ordovician symmetrical univalved mollusks (Monoplacophora and Bellerophontina) of the Cincinnati Arch region7
- Ecosystem structure and stability: middle Upper Ordovician of central Kentucky, USA4
- Subspecies kluges: a pointless taxonomic database to create species opinions for subspecies that then will be over-ruled and allow subspecies occurrences to be recognized as the subspecies rather than the parent species3
- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)2
- Taxonomic richness and abundance of Late Ordovician gastropods and bivalves in mollusc-rich strata of the Cincinnati Arch2
- Molluscan and brachiopod dominated biofacies in the Platteville Formation (Middle Ordovician), upper Mississippi Valley2
- Containing descriptions of the organic remains of the lower division of the New York system (equivalent of the Lower Silurian rocks of Europe)2
Each of the 97 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. 7 further references are not listed. 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
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Picture of Sinuites cancellatus
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No 3D scan of Sinuites cancellatus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1847)