Stenopareia balclatchiensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StenopareiaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Stenopareia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 5.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 452.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Stenopareia balclatchiensis 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
7 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
- Balclatchie Formation · Ardmillan Group6
- Ardwell Farm Formation · Ardwell Group1
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The named rock units Stenopareia balclatchiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Stenopareia balclatchiensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Stenopareia balclatchiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
119 taxa- Amphilichas6 sites
- Arthrorhachis6 sites
- Robergiella neteorum6 sites
- Ampyx5 sites
- Anisonotus hornei5 sites
- Illaenus5 sites
- Isotelus5 sites
- Lonchodomas5 sites
- Porterfieldia caecigena5 sites
- Remopleurides5 sites
- Robergia barrandii5 sites
- Sphaerocoryphe5 sites
- Ampyxina powelli4 sites
- Asaphidae4 sites
- Atractopyge4 sites
- Bronteopsis concentrica4 sites
- Calyptaulax brongniartii4 sites
- Cybellela4 sites
- Decoroproetus jamesoni4 sites
- Encrinuroides4 sites
- Harpidella4 sites
- Nanillaenus4 sites
- Raymondella macconochiei4 sites
- Robergiella correcta4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Stenopareia balclatchiensis, 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- Trilobites from the Ordovician Balclatchie and lower Ardwell groups of the Girvan district, Scotland6
- The Barr and lower Ardmillan series (Caradoc) of the Girvan District, south-west Ayrshire, with descriptions of the Brachiopoda1
Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Stenopareia balclatchiensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Stenopareia balclatchiensis 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 itStenopareia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Reed 1904)