Syndielasma

No picture of Syndielasma was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Syndielasma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SyndielasmatidaePBDB
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 least 2.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 470.3 Mya to 468 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 457.3 Mya.

Ordovician — about 6 of 6 occurrencesOrdovician471–471 Mya — about 1 occurrence471–470 Mya — about 1 occurrence470–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470.3 Mya468 Mya471.8 Mya456.8 Mya

6 occurrences of Syndielasma 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

6 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

3 formations

Antelope Valley — 36.88°N, 116.66°WAntelope Valley — 39.00°N, 116.62°WLough Shee Mudrocks — 54.00°N, 9.00°WHølonda — 63.13°N, 9.98°E

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

Syndielasma and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Syndielasma and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

90 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Syndielasma, 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

Each of the 6 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 Syndielasma was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Syndielasma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Syndielasma was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itSyndielasmatidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper 1956