Stegerhynchus vicina
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StegerhynchusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Stegerhynchus
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Stegerhynchus
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Stegerhynchus
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 5.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 438.6 Mya and 432.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Stegerhynchus vicina 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
11 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
- Chicotte Formation9
- Jupiter Formation1
- La Vieille Formation · Chaleurs Group1
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The named rock units Stegerhynchus vicina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Stegerhynchus vicina and its relatives
SilurianWhere Stegerhynchus vicina and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Costistricklandia gaspeensis2 sites
- Pachystroma brickense2 sites
- Acanthocyclus porpitoides1 site
- Arachnophyllum pentagonum1 site
- Atrypa reticularis1 site
- Barrandella kindlei1 site
- Clathrodictyon crickmayi1 site
- Coolinia pecten1 site
- Dolerorthis flabellites1 site
- Ekwanoscutellum ekwanaspis1 site
- Encrinurus reflexus1 site
- Favosites favosus1 site
- Favosites gothlandicus1 site
- Favosites hisingeri1 site
- Ketophyllum eriphyle1 site
- Leptaena rhomboidalis1 site
- Porpites rotuloides1 site
- Rhynchotrema fringilla1 site
- Salpingostoma inornatum1 site
- Syringopora bifurcata1 site
- Syringopora compacta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Stegerhynchus vicina, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- First Major Appearance of Brachiopod-Dominated Benthic Shelly Communities in the Reef Ecosystem during the Early Silurian5
- Evolution of the Early Silurian rhynchonellide brachiopod Stegerhynchus, Anticosti Island, eastern Canada4
- Late Ordovician - Early Silurian rhynchonellid brachiopods from Anticosti Island, Quebec1
- Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Silurian rocks of the Port Daniel-Black Cape Region, Gaspé1
Each of the 11 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 Stegerhynchus vicina 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 Stegerhynchus vicina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Stegerhynchus vicina 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 itStegerhynchus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1866)