Alternifenestella (Cervella)

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpinofenestellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 303.7 Mya to 293.52 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 307 Mya to 290.1 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 4 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 4 occurrencesPermian308–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences299–299 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences297–297 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences296–296 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences294–294 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences293–293 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences292–291 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences291–291 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences291–290 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences290–290 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences303.7 Mya293.52 Mya307.5 Mya289.6 Mya

4 occurrences of Alternifenestella (Cervella) on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

4 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

2 formations

Copacabana — 16.32°S, 68.67°WCopacabana — 16.30°S, 68.49°WLas Llacerias — 43.20°N, 4.70°W

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The named rock units Alternifenestella (Cervella) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Alternifenestella (Cervella) and its relatives

Permian

Where Alternifenestella (Cervella) and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

27 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Alternifenestella (Cervella), 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 4 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 Alternifenestella (Cervella) was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Alternifenestella (Cervella), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Alternifenestella (Cervella) 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 itSpinofenestella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Chronic 1949)