Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) varicostellata
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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 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) varicostellata 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) varicostellata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) varicostellata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) varicostellata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
55 taxa- Isophragma extensum3 sites
- Eremotoechia silicica2 sites
- Leptellina tennesseensis2 sites
- Palaeostrophomena superba2 sites
- Paurorthis longa2 sites
- Platymena plana2 sites
- Bimuria buttsi1 site
- Bimuria superba1 site
- Camerella minuta1 site
- Christiania subquadrata1 site
- Christiania sulcata1 site
- Colaptomena obesa1 site
- Craspedelia marginata1 site
- Cyrtonotella subfissicosta1 site
- Dactylogonia geniculata1 site
- Eremotoechia cloudi1 site
- Gacella insolita1 site
- Glyptomena trippi1 site
- Isophragma subabbreviatum1 site
- Laticrura1 site
- Laticrura pionodema1 site
- Leptellina (Leptellina) rhacta1 site
- Leptellina (Leptellina) semilunata1 site
- Lingulasma matutinum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) varicostellata, 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
2 references- Chazyan and related brachiopods2
- The Barr and lower Ardmillan series (Caradoc) of the Girvan District, south-west Ayrshire, with descriptions of the Brachiopoda1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) varicostellata 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) varicostellata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) varicostellata 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. (Cooper 1956)