Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) soudleyensis
Searched as Sowerbyella soudleyensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) soudleyensis as the accepted name.
No picture of Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) soudleyensis 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) soudleyensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 6.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 451.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) soudleyensis 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
4 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) soudleyensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) soudleyensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) soudleyensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
No other named taxon is catalogued from any of those sites.
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) soudleyensis, and this reads all of them.
Entered from
2 references- Caradoc Strophomenoid and Plectambonitoid Brachiopods from Wales and the Welsh Borderland3
- The Middle Ordovician of the Oslo Region, Norway. 8. Brachiopods of the Suborder Strophomenida1
Each of the 4 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) soudleyensis 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) soudleyensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) soudleyensis 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)