Valcourea

Valcourea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlaesiomyinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Plaesiomyidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Plaesiomyidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Plaesiomyidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 457.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 488.9 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 79 occurrencesOrdovician — about 79 of 79 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 79 occurrences490–488 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences487–485 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences485–483 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences474–472 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 2 occurrences471–469 Mya — about 4 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 4 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 5 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 5 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 5 occurrences463–461 Mya — about 5 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 4 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 4 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 7 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 8 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 8 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 8 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 6 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 2 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471.3 Mya457.3 Mya489.8 Mya442.2 Mya

79 occurrences of Valcourea 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

79 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

25 formations

Benbolt — 37.10°N, 81.56°WBenbolt — 37.11°N, 81.52°WBenbolt — 37.10°N, 81.34°WBenbolt — 37.27°N, 81.00°WBenbolt — 37.08°N, 81.71°WBenbolt — 37.00°N, 81.67°WBenbolt — 37.00°N, 81.00°WCopenhagen — 39.98°N, 116.27°WCopenhagen — 39.20°N, 116.25°WCopenhagen — 38.53°N, 116.40°WCopenhagen — 38.82°N, 116.50°WCopenhagen — 39.23°N, 116.41°WAntelope Valley — 38.05°N, 116.45°WAntelope Valley — 36.88°N, 116.66°WAntelope Valley — 39.20°N, 116.25°WAntelope Valley — 39.00°N, 116.62°WAntelope Valley — 39.23°N, 116.41°WAntelope Valley — 39.05°N, 116.74°WBarrel Spring — 36.90°N, 118.06°WBarrel Spring — 37.00°N, 118.00°WCrown Point — 44.61°N, 73.41°WCrown Point — 44.68°N, 73.45°WCrown Point — 44.58°N, 73.53°WLaval — 45.58°N, 74.00°WLaval — 47.00°N, 72.00°WSan Juan — 30.00°S, 69.00°WSan Juan — 31.00°S, 69.00°WDay Point — 50.20°N, 63.50°WLenoir — 35.96°N, 83.92°WCrown Point — 50.20°N, 63.50°WChaumont — 43.21°N, 75.46°WValcour — 50.20°N, 63.50°WCapinota — 17.72°S, 66.28°WJiaBoSai — 47.00°N, 89.00°EBromide — 34.00°N, 97.00°WEureka — 37.12°N, 116.50°WCopenhagen? — 37.55°N, 116.12°WArline — 36.93°N, 81.70°WAuchensoul — 55.20°N, 4.74°WConfinis — 55.18°N, 4.80°WStinchar — 55.26°N, 4.30°WOtta Conglomerate — 61.77°N, 9.53°ETurnbull Mountain — 46.33°N, 66.93°WTramore Limestone — 52.15°N, 7.16°W

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The named rock units Valcourea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Valcourea and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Valcourea and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

485 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 76 sites for Valcourea, 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

29 references

Each of the 79 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. 17 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Valcourea

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Valcourea 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Raymond 1911