Composita elongata

Composita elongata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CompositaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Athyrididina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Athyrididina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Athyrididina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 298.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 293.52 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 3 of 4 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 4 occurrencesPermian324–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences311–309 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318.6 Mya298.9 Mya324 Mya292.9 Mya

4 occurrences of Composita elongata on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

4 formations

Foraker Limestome — 39.25°N, 96.57°WGrenola Limestone — 39.20°N, 96.62°WAmsden — 41.81°N, 107.30°WKrebs — 37.79°N, 91.53°W

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

Composita elongata and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Composita elongata and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

79 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Composita elongata, 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 content1

Picture of Composita elongata

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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Composita elongata 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 itComposita through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dunbar and Condra 1932