Sinuopea
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SinuopeinaePBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 475.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 471.3 Mya.
37 occurrences of Sinuopea 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
37 occurrences- Cambrian24%
- Ordovician76%
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
16 formations
- Tanyard Formation · Ellenburger Group7
- Chepultepec Formation5
- Gasconade Formation5
- Eminence Formation4
- Great Meadows Formation2
- Antiklinalbugt Formation2
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The named rock units Sinuopea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sinuopea and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Sinuopea and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
142 taxa- Gasconadia putilla6 sites
- Macluritella uniangulata6 sites
- Schizopea typica6 sites
- Ceratopea grandis4 sites
- Conocerina4 sites
- Finkelnburgia4 sites
- Levisoceras4 sites
- Schizopea4 sites
- Ectenoceras3 sites
- Hemithecella expansa3 sites
- Macluritella3 sites
- Tetralobula3 sites
- Anisotechnophorus nuculitiformis2 sites
- Aulochiton sannerae2 sites
- Burenoceras2 sites
- Clarkoceras2 sites
- Conocerina obliqua2 sites
- Dakeoceras2 sites
- Finkelnburgia missouriensis2 sites
- Hormotoma2 sites
- Ophileta2 sites
- Ophileta complanata2 sites
- Ophileta supraplana2 sites
- Ozarkina2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Sinuopea, 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
18 references- Systematic Paleontology8
- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)6
- Faunal correlations of the Ellenburger limestone of Texas4
- Part II - Fossils from the Smith Basin Limestone of the Fort Ann Region New York2
- Early Ordovician Sea in Central Texas2
- Geology of the Appalachian Valley in Virginia. Part I – Geological text and illustrations2
- On the Lower Ordovician faunas of East Greenland2
- Cambrian Macrofossils from the Phillips Brook and North Brook Anticlines, Western Newfoundland1
- Some molluscan problematica from the Upper Cambrian - Lower Ordovician of the Ozark uplift1
- Early Ordovician trilobites and molluscs from the Poulsen Cliff Formation, Washington Land, western North Greenland1
- Systematics, environment, and biogeography of some Late Cambrian and Early Ordovician trilobites from eastern New York State1
- Part I - Some El Paso guide fossils1
Each of the 37 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. 6 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
Media content1
Picture of Sinuopea
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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 itSinuopeinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich 1911