Composita mira

Composita mira

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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 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 283.3 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 290.1 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Permian — about 112 of 112 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 112 occurrences291–290 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences287–286 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences286–284 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 2 occurrences282–280 Mya — about 2 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 2 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 2 occurrences278–276 Mya — about 2 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 2 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 2 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 1 occurrence272–271 Mya — about 1 occurrence271–270 Mya — about 1 occurrence270–268 Mya — about 1 occurrence268–267 Mya — about 1 occurrence267–266 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences262–260 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 12 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 20 occurrences258–256 Mya — about 20 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 20 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 15 occurrences254–252 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences283.3 Mya259.857 Mya290.9 Mya251.1 Mya

112 occurrences of Composita mira 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

112 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

13 formations

Gerster — 40.17°N, 114.83°WGerster — 40.42°N, 114.83°WGerster — 40.50°N, 114.83°WGerster — 40.50°N, 114.67°WGerster — 41.25°N, 114.33°WGerster — 40.08°N, 113.83°WGerster — 39.33°N, 113.67°WGerster — 39.50°N, 115.25°WGerster — 40.25°N, 115.17°WCathedral Mountain — 30.29°N, 103.30°WCathedral Mountain — 30.39°N, 103.16°WCathedral Mountain — 30.39°N, 103.14°WCathedral Mountain — 30.33°N, 103.23°WRoad Canyon — 30.30°N, 103.34°WRoad Canyon — 30.29°N, 103.37°WRoad Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.17°WPark City — 42.97°N, 106.78°WPark City — 39.60°N, 110.82°WPhosphoria — 42.97°N, 106.78°WPhosphoria — 44.00°N, 114.00°WBone Spring — 31.33°N, 104.87°WBone Spring — 31.24°N, 104.76°WPalo Quemado — 26.35°N, 102.94°WPlympton — 40.25°N, 115.17°WWord — 30.40°N, 103.18°WHess — 30.42°N, 103.08°WHueco — 31.30°N, 104.88°WCibolo — 29.88°N, 104.31°WDelaware Mountain — 31.58°N, 105.04°W

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The named rock units Composita mira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Composita mira and its relatives

Permian

Where Composita mira and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

187 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 112 sites for Composita mira, 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 112 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 mira

Source
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Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Composita mira 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 PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Girty 1899)