Composita girtyi
No picture of Composita girtyi was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Composita girtyi itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Composita girtyi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 6.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 312.8 Mya and 306 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Composita girtyi 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
3 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
1 formation
- Vanport Formation · Allegheny Group3
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The named rock units Composita girtyi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Composita girtyi and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Composita girtyi and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Cleiothyridina orbicularis3 sites
- Composita subtilita3 sites
- Condrathyris perplexa3 sites
- Dictyoclostus semireticulatus3 sites
- Naticopsis remex3 sites
- Spirifer rockymontanus3 sites
- Acanthopecten carboniferous2 sites
- Ambozone peoriensis2 sites
- Amphiscapha catilloides2 sites
- Beecheria bovidens2 sites
- Desmoinesia nana2 sites
- Echinoconchus punctatus2 sites
- Euconospira turbiniformis2 sites
- Globodoma spironema2 sites
- Hustedia mormoni2 sites
- Liroceras missouriense2 sites
- Naticopsis tortum2 sites
- Neospirifer cameratus2 sites
- Anomphalus rotulus1 site
- Astartella varica1 site
- Brachycycloceras normale1 site
- Caninia torquia1 site
- Chonetes1 site
- Chonetinella verneuilana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Composita girtyi, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Composita girtyi was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Composita girtyi itself, so it was not used.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Composita girtyi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
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. Raymond 1911