Sphenotus solenoides
No picture of Sphenotus solenoides 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 Sphenotus solenoides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SphenotusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 22 million years on record.
The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 382.31 Mya.
4 occurrences of Sphenotus solenoides on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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- Devonian100%
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
- Valnev Horizon Formation1
- Ban Nguon Formation1
- Moscow Formation · Hamilton Group1
- Geneseo Formation · Genesee Group1
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The named rock units Sphenotus solenoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sphenotus solenoides and its relatives
DevonianWhere Sphenotus solenoides and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
96 taxa- Goniomorpha hamiltonensis2 sites
- Grammysia2 sites
- Grammysioidea2 sites
- Acanthophyllum1 site
- Actinopteria boydi1 site
- Allanella tullius1 site
- Alveolites1 site
- Ambocoelia umbonata1 site
- Anomalotoechus1 site
- Athyris spiriferoides1 site
- Camurophyllum1 site
- Carydium1 site
- Cimitaria1 site
- Coenites1 site
- Cornellites1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Cupularostrum eximia1 site
- Cypricardella bellistriata1 site
- Cypricardinea indenta1 site
- Cyrtonella1 site
- Devonochonetes coronatus1 site
- Devonochonetes scitulus1 site
- Dictyotomaria capillaria1 site
- Dipleura dekayi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Sphenotus solenoides, 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
4 references- Lower and Middle Devonian marine deposits of the Soviet arctic and the correlation with arctic Canada1
- Tong-Dzuy et al., 19881
- Classification and distribution of the Hamilton and Chemung series of central and eastern New York, Part 21
- The classification and distribution of the Hamilton and Chemung series of central and eastern New York1
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
Media content0
No picture of Sphenotus solenoides 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 Sphenotus solenoides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sphenotus solenoides 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 itSphenotus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1870