Skenidioides pyramidalis

Skenidioides pyramidalis

The Field Museum of Natural History · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SkenidioidesPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Skenidioides
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Skenidioides
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Skenidioides
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 7.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 10 occurrencesSilurian — about 10 of 10 occurrencesSilurian444–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432.9 Mya425 Mya443.6 Mya422.2 Mya

10 occurrences of Skenidioides pyramidalis 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

10 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

Williamson Shale — 43.22°N, 77.19°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 78.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 77.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 76.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 75.00°WRochester Shale — 43.20°N, 77.53°WRochester Shale — 43.10°N, 79.06°WWabash — 40.42°N, 85.80°WIrondequoit Limestone — 43.21°N, 77.58°W

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The named rock units Skenidioides pyramidalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Skenidioides pyramidalis and its relatives

Silurian

Where Skenidioides pyramidalis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

216 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Skenidioides pyramidalis, 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

3 references

Each of the 10 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 Skenidioides pyramidalis

Source
GBIF
Credit
The Field Museum of Natural History
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Skenidioides pyramidalis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itSkenidioides through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Twenhofel 1928)