Steusloffia acuta

No picture of Steusloffia acuta was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Steusloffia acuta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SteusloffiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 4.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 469.1 Mya to 464.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 472.1 Mya to 461.4 Mya.

Ordovician — about 10 of 10 occurrencesOrdovician472–472 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469.1 Mya464.3 Mya472.6 Mya460.9 Mya

10 occurrences of Steusloffia acuta 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

10 occurrences

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

7 formations

Huk — 59.77°N, 10.48°EHuk — 59.92°N, 10.78°EHuk — 59.82°N, 9.56°EMikonys — 56.00°N, 25.84°EMikonys — 56.24°N, 24.86°EKandle — 59.42°N, 24.75°EVaginatumkalk — 59.42°N, 24.75°EObeliai — 56.00°N, 25.84°EJuodupe — 56.24°N, 24.86°ESakyna — 56.30°N, 22.86°E

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The named rock units Steusloffia acuta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Steusloffia acuta and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Steusloffia acuta and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

73 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Steusloffia acuta, 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

3 references

Each of the 10 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Steusloffia acuta was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Steusloffia acuta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Steusloffia acuta 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 itSteusloffia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Krause 1891