Composita sulcata
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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 5.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 335.4 Mya to 330.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 351.9 Mya to 321.8 Mya.
18 occurrences of Composita sulcata 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
18 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
6 formations
- Amsden Formation8
- Heath Formation4
- Monroe Canyon Formation2
- Glen Dean Limestone Formation1
- Little Flat Formation1
- Brazer Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Composita sulcata 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.
Composita sulcata and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Composita sulcata and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
96 taxa- Pugnoides quinqueplecis5 sites
- Anthracospirifer shawi exoletus4 sites
- Spirifer4 sites
- Anthracospirifer curvilateralis3 sites
- Anthracospirifer leidyi3 sites
- Caninia3 sites
- Composita subquadrata3 sites
- Dictyoclostus3 sites
- Eumetria3 sites
- Inflatia3 sites
- Linoproductus3 sites
- Ovatia3 sites
- Zaphrentites3 sites
- Amplexizaphrentis2 sites
- Anthracospirifer shawi shawi2 sites
- Barytichisma2 sites
- Bellerophon2 sites
- Chaetetes2 sites
- Cleiothyridina sublamellosa2 sites
- Clionolithes2 sites
- Composita laevis2 sites
- Dielasma2 sites
- Echinoconchus alternatus2 sites
- Faberophyllum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Composita sulcata, 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
6 references- Stratigraphy and geologic history of the Amsden Formation (Mississippian and Pennsylvanian) of Wyoming8
- Carboniferous formations and faunas of central Montana4
- New Mississippian Formations and Faunal Zones in Chesterfield Range, Portneuf Quadrangle Southeast Idaho3
- Geology of the Cerro Gordo mining district, Inyo County, California1
- Fauna of Glen Dean Limestone (Chester) in Indiana and Northern Kentucky1
- Corals from the Brazer Formation (Mississippian) of Northern Utah1
Each of the 18 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 Composita sulcata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Composita sulcata itself, so it was not used.
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 Composita sulcata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Composita sulcata 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.
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. Weller 1914