Strophomena billingsi

No picture of Strophomena billingsi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Strophomena billingsi itself, so it was not used. 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 Strophomena billingsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StrophomenaPBDB
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 8.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 449.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 12 of 12 occurrencesOrdovician458–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458.7 Mya449 Mya

12 occurrences of Strophomena billingsi 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

12 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

5 formations

Dunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WVerulam — 44.45°N, 78.70°WVerulam — 44.43°N, 78.78°WVerulam — 44.50°N, 78.97°WLindsay — 45.50°N, 81.00°WLindsay — 44.58°N, 78.98°WProsser Limestone — 44.98°N, 93.27°WDecorah Shale — 44.95°N, 93.10°W

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

Strophomena billingsi and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Strophomena billingsi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

251 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Strophomena billingsi, 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

The publications this record was entered from could not be read, because the Paleobiology Database answered 502. That is a failure here, not an absence of literature. Please try again shortly.

Media and terms

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No picture of Strophomena billingsi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Strophomena billingsi itself, so it was not used.

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 Strophomena billingsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Strophomena billingsi 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 itStrophomena through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Winchell and Schuchert 1893