Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) antiqua
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 468 Mya and 456.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
28 occurrences of Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) antiqua 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
28 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
7 formations
- Ffairfach Flags and Grits Formation · Ffairfach Group12
- Tramore Limestone Formation · Duncannon Group4
- Flags and Grits Formation3
- Ffairfach Conglomerates Formation · Ffairfach Group3
- Meadowtown Beds Formation2
- Ffairfach Conglomerate Formation · Ffairfach Group2
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The named rock units Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) antiqua has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) antiqua and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) antiqua and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Dalmanella parva19 sites
- Basilicus tyrannus17 sites
- Brachiopoda14 sites
- Horderleyella14 sites
- Trepostomata14 sites
- Bryozoa13 sites
- Hyalostelia13 sites
- Marrolithus12 sites
- Crinoidea10 sites
- Flexicalymene cambrensis9 sites
- Rostricellula9 sites
- Trilobita9 sites
- Tallinnella8 sites
- Triplesia edgelliana7 sites
- Macrocoelia llandeiloensis6 sites
- Prasopora6 sites
- Salopia5 sites
- Conularida indet.3 sites
- Hesperorthis leinsterensis3 sites
- Oxoplecia3 sites
- Paterula bohemica3 sites
- Tissintia immatura3 sites
- Colaptomena auduni2 sites
- Cryptostomata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) antiqua, 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- Benthic palaeocommunities represented in the Ffairfach Group and coeval Ordovician successions of Wales20
- Ordovician rhynchonelliformean brachiopods from Co. Waterford, SE Ireland: Palaeobiogeography of the Leinster Terrane6
- Ordovician Brachiopoda from the Shelve District, Shropshire2
Each of the 28 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.
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No picture of Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) antiqua was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) antiqua, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) antiqua 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 itSowerbyella (Sowerbyella) through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Jones 1928)