Christiania magna
No picture of Christiania magna 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 Christiania magna, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChristianiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Christiania
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Christiania
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Christiania
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 9.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 453 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Christiania magna 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- Ordovician100%
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
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The named rock units Christiania magna has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Christiania magna and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Christiania magna and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Onniella jonesi8 sites
- Boreadorthis sheehani7 sites
- Portranella6 sites
- Leptaena5 sites
- Platystrophia5 sites
- Strophomena5 sites
- Skenidioides craigensis4 sites
- Spinorthis4 sites
- Stenopareia4 sites
- Triplesia hintsae4 sites
- Cyclospira3 sites
- Eospirigerina sulevi3 sites
- Katastrophomena (Costistrophomena) costata3 sites
- Kiaeromena3 sites
- Kullervo complectens3 sites
- Laticrura erecta3 sites
- Oxoplecia plicata3 sites
- Sampo ruralis3 sites
- Sowerbyella raegaverensis3 sites
- Altaethyrella zhejiangensis2 sites
- Anisopleurella2 sites
- Antizygospira liquanensis2 sites
- Deloprosopus jiangshanensis2 sites
- Dicoelosia lata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Christiania magna, 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
2 references- Late Ordovician (Ashgillian) brachiopods from the region of the Sambre and Meuse Rivers, Belgium8
- Late Ordovician brachiopod communities of southeast China2
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. 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
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No picture of Christiania magna 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 Christiania magna, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Christiania magna 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 itChristiania through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sheehan 1987